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|accepted_name=Eucladium verticillatum
|accepted_authority=(Bridel) Bruch & Schimper
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryol. Europ.
|place=1: 93. 1846,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Weissia verticillata
|authority=Bridel
|rank=species
|publication_title=J. Bot. (Schrader)
|publication_place=1800(1): 283. 1801
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pottiaceae;Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae;Eucladium;Eucladium verticillatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pottiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eucladium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eucladium verticillatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 560, 578
|treatment_page=page 487
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, 0.7–6 cm, leaves often branched in whorls in successive innovations. <b>Leaves</b> 1.2–2.5 mm, flat to channeled distally or at mid leaf, in transverse section at mid leaf often tapering from costa to leaf margin because of decreasing size of cells, mucro occasionally ending in a sharp, clear cell; marginal serrulations projecting from the distal end of cells of the hyaline cells of the leaf base; costa to 1/3 or more the width of the leaf near the base, basal cells 12–15 µm wide, 2–5:1; median and distal laminal cells 8–10 µm wide, 1(–2):1, walls rather thick, often irregularly so, large juxtacostally and decreasing in size to the leaf margin, irregular in shape from quadrate to rectangular, 1–2(–3):1, sometimes transversely elongate 2:1, occasionally with transverse walls oblique, marginal cells narrower in places and 2–3:1 occasionally approximating a border; papillae variously scattered or centered. <b>Seta</b> yellow to redbrown, not or little twisted. <b>Capsule</b> 0.8–1.8 mm, red-brown when old; operculum 0.5–0.8 mm; peristome rudimentary or to 300 µm, yellow to orange, with a low, papillose basal membrane. <b>Calyptra</b> ca. 2.5 mm. <b>Spores</b> pale.</span><!--

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|phenology=Sporophytes infrequent, capsules mature Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dripping calcareous or sometimes granitic rock faces or mortar, around springs, dripping bluffs in calcareous regions
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-1900 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Fla.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Mexico;Bermuda;Central America;Europe;Asia;n;s Africa;Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia).
|discussion=<p><i>Eucladium verticillatum</i> is associated with yearround seepage, possibly the reason that, although the stem may be reduced, the leaves are seldom reduced as they frequently are in drought-tolerant species of the family. The plants are typically a yellow-green, and there is usually a vivid contrast between the pellucid green laminal cells and the clear basal ones. Stem hyalodermis cells are frequently attached to the costa base, and form decurrencies of long and thin-walled cells in the leaf angles when leaves are removed. <i>Gymnostomum</i> and <i>Molendoa</i> are similar plants but differ by blunt apices and subpercurrent costae. Both these genera possess a stem central strand, no hyalodermis, and occasional 2-stratose areas in the lamina. <i>Eucladium</i> may be separated from these taxa and others that may be mistaken for it, such as <i>Hymenostylium</i> and <i>Anoectangium</i> by its highly differentiated bulging or lax, thin-walled basal cells. Assurances in the literature to the contrary, many other taxa also possess serrulate or denticulate leaf-shoulder margins, especially <i>Hymenostylium</i>, while <i>Eucladium</i> may rarely lack such serrulations. Specimens of <i>Eucladium</i> in which the lamina is highly reduced so that the leaves seem entirely costate are included without special rank in the range of variation of the species in North America. The laminal papillae of <i>Hymenostylium</i> are clear, sharp, well-defined; those of <i>Eucladium</i> are low, amorphous or scablike on the lumen surface.</p>
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name=Eucladium verticillatum
|authority=(Bridel) Bruch & Schimper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Weissia verticillata
|family=Pottiaceae
|phenology=Sporophytes infrequent, capsules mature Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dripping calcareous or sometimes granitic rock faces or mortar, around springs, dripping bluffs in calcareous regions
|elevation=low to high elevations (0-1900 m)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Fla.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Mexico;Bermuda;Central America;Europe;Asia;n;s Africa;Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryol. Europ.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Pottiaceae subfam. Trichostomoideae
|genus=Eucladium
|species=Eucladium verticillatum
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