Sphagnum subsecundum |
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cow-horn peat-moss, sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants small, slender, often wiry; green, yellow-brown or golden brown; capitulum small with terminal bud absent. |
Stem(s) | leaves triangular-lingulate, 0.8 mm or less; apex entire or weakly denticulate, hyaline cells sometimes septate, efibrillose and aporose except near apex. |
Branches | often short and blunt. |
Sexual condition | dioicous. |
Capsule | exserted, with few pseudostomata. |
Spores | 30–35 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces, distinct bifurcated Y-mark sculpture on distal surface; proximal laesurae more than 0.5 spore radius. |
Branch | fascicles with 2–3 spreading and 2–3 pendent branches Branch leaves broadly ovate, subsecund, hyaline cells on convex surface with very numerous small pores (18–40 per cell) in a continuous row along the commissures, concave surface usually aporose. |
Sphagnum subsecundum |
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Habitat | Minerotrophic, near the edges of open, poor fens, less commonly found in open medium fens |
Elevation | low to high elevations |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; CT; ID; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; QC; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
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Discussion | Sporophytes are rare in Sphagnum subsecundum. This species is often associated with S. angustifolium, S. centrale, S. fimbriatum, S. flexuosum, S. palustre, and S. teres. The most widespread and common species of sect. Subsecunda, it exhibits considerable phenotypic plasticity in size. However, the stem leaves are always quite small in comparison to those of similar species. See also discussions under 52. S. contortum and 55. S. inexspectatum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 84. |
Parent taxa | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Subsecunda |
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Synonyms | S. crispum |
Name authority | Nees: in J. Sturm et al., Deutschl. Fl. 2(17): species 3. (1819) |
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