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Sphagnum fimbriatum Wils. & Hook.

Syn.: Sphagnum acutifolium subsp. fimbriatum (Wilson) Hérib., Sphagnum acutifolium var. tenue Nees & Hornsch., Sphagnum bolanderi Warnst., Sphagnum capillifolium Dozy & Molk., Sphagnum capillifolium var. tenue (Nees & Hornsch.) Steud., Sphagnum chilense Lorentz

Reproductive morphology Unknown

Taxonomic group Section Acutifolia

618 research-grade observations on iNaturalist · 126 microscopy observations

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Identification

Identification features

Taxonomy

Observation map

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Database (13) iNaturalist countries (20 countries) iNaturalist points (617)

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Community Science

iNaturalist Observations

618 research-grade observations

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Microscopy Observations

126 observations with microscopy

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Sources

Literature & Papers

An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus

2020 Hodgetts, N. G.; Söderström, L.; Blockeel, T. L. et al. Journal of Bryology 42(1), 1–116

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A revised new catalog of the mosses of Japan

2016 Suzuki, T. Hattoria 7, 9–223

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Sphagnaceae

2007 McQueen, C. B.; Andrus, R. E. Flora of North America North of Mexico 27, 45–101

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Checklist of the mosses of Canada II

1987 Ireland, Jr., R. R.; Brassard, G. R.; Schofield, W. B. et al. Lindbergia 13, 1–62

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Sphagnopsida, Sphagnaceae

1984 Crum, H. A. North American Flora, series 2 11, iv + 180 pp

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Index Muscorum. 4 (P--S)

1967 Wijk, R. van der; Margadant, W. D.; Florschütz, P. A. Regnum Vegetabile 48, 604 pp

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Studies on Sphagnum L. I. Nomenclatural revision of the European taxa

1966 Isoviita, P. Annales Botanici Fennici 3, 199–264

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New combinations in mosses VIII

1965 Wijk, R. van der; Margadant, W. D. Taxon 14, 196–198

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Mahovi tresetari Hrvatske i Slovenije (Die Torfmoose Kroatiens und Sloveniens)

1928 Pichler, A. R. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Universitatis Zagrebiensis 3, 41–60

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Botanische Ergebnisse der schwedischen Expedition nach Patagonien und dem Feuerlande 1907-1909. X. Les mousses

1923 Cardot, J.; Brotherus, V. F. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, Ny Följd 63(10), 1–74, pls. 1--4

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Notes on Braithwaite's Sphagnaceae exsiccatae

1919 Wheldon, J. A. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 57, 142–147

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Dritter Beitrag zur Moosflora des Erzgebirges

1917 Röll, J. Hedwigia 59, 285–300

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Sphagnales, Sphagnaceae (Sphagnologia universalis)

1911 Warnstorf, C. Das Pflanzenreich 51, i–iv, 1–546

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Mousses nouvelles du Japon et de Corée

1907 Cardot, J. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, sér. 2, 7, 709–717

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Some unreported Alaskan Sphagna, together with a summary of the cryptogamic work of the University of California Botanical Expedition to Alaska in 1899

1907 Setchell, W. A. University of California Publications in Botany 2(14), 309–315

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Les muscinées d'Auvergne

1899 Héribaud, J. Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, Belles-lettres et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand, Deuxième Série 14, 544 pp

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Beiträge zur Kenntniss exotischer Sphagna. [IV-V.]

1891 Warnstorf, C. Hedwigia 30, 127–178

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Vorläufige Mittheilung über die von mir im Jahre 1888 in Nord-Amerika gesammelten neuen Varietäten und Formen der Torfmoose (Fortsetzung)

1891 Röll, J. Botanisches Centralblatt 46, 373–376

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De danske Sphagnum-Arter

1890 Jensen, C. E. O. Festskrift, Udgivet af den Botaniske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 52–116

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Conspectus Florae Groenlandicae. Pars secunda

1887 Lange, J.; Jensen, C. E. O. Meddelelser om Grønland 3(2), 233–446

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Zur Systematik der Torfmoose (Fortsetzung)

1886 Röll, J. Flora 69(9), 129–137

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In Mosser fra Novaia-Zemlia. Bianco Lunos Kgl. Hof-Bogtrykkeri (F. Dreyer), Kjøbenhavn.

1885 Jensen, C. E. O. Mosser fra Novaia-Zemlia

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Neue europäische Sphagnumformen

1884 Warnstorf, C. Hedwigia 23, 97–105, 116–125

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Notes sphagnologiques, description de quelques variétés nouvelles

1884 Cardot, J. Revue Bryologique 11, 54–56

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Die Torfmoose der Thüringischen Flora

1882 Schliephacke, C. Irmischia, Correspondenzblatt des botanischen Vereins für das nördliche Thüringen 2, 64–70; 79–88

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Neue deutsche Sphagnumformen

1882 Warnstorf, C. Flora 65(13), 205–208

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In Die Europäischen Torfmoose. Theobald Grieben, Berlin.

1881 Warnstorf, C. Die Europäischen Torfmoose

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In The Sphagnaceae or Peat-Mosses of Europe and North America. Hardwick & Bogue, London.

1878 Braithwaite, R. The Sphagnaceae or Peat-Mosses of Europe and North America

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Musci frondosi in Chile prope Valdiviam et prope Corral lecti per Dr. Krause

1866 Lorentz, P. G. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 24(24), 185–189

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Bijdrage tot de anatomie en phytographie der Sphagna

1854 Dozy, F. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde 2(2), 1–11, pl. 1–2

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In Flora Antarctica (Vol. 2). Reeve, London.

1847 Hooker, J. D. Flora Antarctica 2, 398

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Ueber Sphagna, nebst Bemerkungen su den in Nr. 88 der botan. Zeitung für 1824 durch Herrn Inspektor Breutel mitgetheilten Beobachtungen

1825 Bruch, P. Flora 8(40), 625–635

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In Nomenclator Botanicus (Vol. 2). I. G. Cottae, Stuttgardt & Tubingen.

1824 Steudel, E. G. Nomenclator Botanicus 2

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In Bryologia Germanica (Vol. 1). Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig.

1823 Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D.; Hornschuch, C. F.; Sturm, J. Bryologia Germanica 1

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