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Sphagnum subsecundum
Several closely related species have been recognized and form a difficult complex of seemingly intergrading taxa. Two are key northern species worth mentioning. Sphagnum contortum has a 2-3 layered hyalodermis and small pores that are less then ½ the distance between the fibrils. Sphagnum orientale, a truly arctic species has tiny pores in 2-3 rows, the medial row is sometimes not well-organized, but there is at least 1-3 tiny medial pores in some upper leaf cells. It is shiny blackish purple in color calling to mind ‘Darth Vadar’.
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| Habit | Orange-green to yellow-brown plants in soft cushions and lawns, Branches slightly curved (subsecund), one pendent branches somewhat visible between capitulum arms. |
| Stems | with brownish central core and 1-latered well-developed hyalodermis, |
| Leaves | curved, ovate, acute and narrowly truncate, very concave, stem leaves small, oblong to ovate-oblong, blunt, concave, with some fibrils in upper portion and also a few irregular areas of resorption present. |
| Leaf Cells | Hyaline cells on the convex surface with two rows of numerous, rounded to elliptic pores arranged along the green cell contact, the pores about the width of the fibril spacing, on the concave surface with a few small pores at the ends and corners, green cells trapezoidal exposed more broadly on the convex surface. |
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| Habitat | In wet minerotrophic habitats. |
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