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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Schistidium occidentale
|accepted_authority=(Lawton) Churchill
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Advances Cladist.
|place=1: 143. 1981,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Grimmia occidentalis
|authority=Lawton
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=94: 461, figs. 1–15. 1967
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grimmiaceae;Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae;Schistidium;Schistidium occidentale
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Grimmiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schistidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Schistidium occidentale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 208, 214, 215
|treatment_page=page 221
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in open to occasionally compact tufts or mats, olivaceous, often (red-)brown or nearly black. <b>Stems</b> 1–6 cm, sometimes denuded of leaves at base, central strand absent. <b>Leaves</b> usually curved to falcate, sometimes falcate-secund or erect when dry, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, concave proximally, weakly keeled or concave distally, 1.4–4(–6) mm, 1-stratose with a few 2-stratose striae or patches distally; margins plane or somewhat erect, rarely weakly recurved, smooth, 2-stratose; apices rounded or acute, usually ending in a fleshy, multistratose apiculus; costa percurrent, rarely short-excurrent, smooth; basal marginal cells quadrate or short-rectangular; distal cells quadrate or rounded, often angular, 6–11 µm wide, smooth, sometimes weakly bulging-mammillose, weakly sinuose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous. <b>Capsule</b> reddish brown, ovoid, cupulate, or short-cylindric, 1.3–2 mm; exothecial cells mostly short-elongate or isodiametric, usually irregularly angular, usually thin-walled, sometimes trigonous; rim darker colored than capsule wall, often red; stomata absent; peristome patent, 350–550 µm, red or orange-red, finely papillose, entire or perforated. <b>Spores</b> 9–12 µm, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Wet or dry rocks, often along intermittent watercourses
|elevation=high elevations (2000-3500 m)
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>See comments under 6. <i>Schistidium cinclidodonteum</i>.</p>
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|references=
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name=Schistidium occidentale
|author=
|authority=(Lawton) Churchill
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Grimmia occidentalis
|family=Grimmiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature late spring to early summer.
|habitat=Wet or dry rocks, often along intermittent watercourses
|elevation=high elevations (2000-3500 m)
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Advances Cladist.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Grimmiaceae subfam. Grimmioideae
|genus=Schistidium
|species=Schistidium occidentale
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