Sphagnum rubellum |
Sphagnum macrophyllum |
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sphagnum |
largeleaf sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants small to moderate-sized, slender, fairly stiff but soft, capitulum flat-topped and stellate; deep maroon-red to variegated red and yellowish green, lacking metallic sheen when dry. | Plants brown, dark brown to nearly black. |
Stem(s) | leaves lingulate-triangular to lingulate, 1–1.4 mm, apex broadly rounded but becoming acute in hemiisophyllous forms, border strongly developed at base (more than 0.25 width); hyaline cells rhombic and 0–3-septate with some cells in leaf midregion 2–septate. |
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Branches | weakly to strongly 5-ranked. |
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Branch leaves | ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.9–1.2 mm, concave, subsecund on some branches, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from small round pores near apex to round pores near base, on concave surface with large round pores in proximal portions of leaf. |
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex narrow and tubular, hyaline cells with 8–12 moderate-sized (more than 0.25 cell diameter) in mostly one row. |
Sexual condition | dioicous. |
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Spores | 18–33 µm, coarsely papillose on both surfaces; proximal laesura less than 0.4 spore radius. |
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Branch | fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches. |
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Sphagnum rubellum |
Sphagnum macrophyllum |
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Phenology | Capsules mature mid summer. | |
Habitat | Poor fens and ombrotrophic mires, forming extensive carpets and hummocks | Floating or stranded at margins of shallow lakes and ponds, rarely in seeps where probably constantly wet |
Elevation | low to high elevations | low to moderate elevations |
Distribution |
AK; CT; IL; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; VT; WA; WI; BC; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
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AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; LA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NY; SC; TN; TX; VA; NF; NS
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Discussion | Sporophytes are uncommon in Sphagnum rubellum. This common species is associated with S. angustifolium, S. capillifolium, S. fallax, S. fuscum, S. magellanicum, S. papillosum, S. recurvum, and S. tenellum. Inland, it has a greater tendency to form extensive carpets and floating mats than hummocks. See also discussion under 65. S. andersonianum, 68. S. bartlettianum, and 86. S. talbotianum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 96. | FNA vol. 27, p. 61. |
Parent taxa | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Acutifolia | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Isocladus |
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Synonyms | S. acutifolium var. tenellum, S. capillaceum var. tenellum, S. capillifolium var. tenellum | Isocladus macrophyllus, S. macrophyllum var. burinense |
Name authority | Wilson: Bryol. Brit., 19. (1855) | Bridel: Bryol. Univ. 1: 10. (1826) |
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