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|accepted_name=Pohlia melanodon
|accepted_authority=(Bridel) A. J. Shaw
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bryologist
|place=84: 506. 1982
|year=1982
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bryum melanodon
|authority=Bridel
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bryol. Univ.
|publication_place=1: 845. 1827
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=B. carneum
|authority=Withering
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=B. delicatulum
|authority=Hedwig
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Mielichhoferiaceae;Pohlia;Pohlia melanodon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Mielichhoferiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pohlia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pohlia melanodon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 194, 196, 211
|treatment_page=page 210
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, dark green, not glossy. <b>Stems</b> 0.3–1 cm. <b>Leaves</b> erect-spreading to spreading, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.7–1.3 mm; base not or scarcely decurrent; margins weakly serrulate in distal 1/3; apex acute or short-acuminate; costa ending well before apex; distal medial laminal cells laxly and broadly rhomboidal, 60–100 µm, walls thin. <b>Specialized</b> asexual reproduction absent. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous; perigonial leaves ovate; perichaetial leaves scarcely differentiated, lanceolate. <b>Seta</b> orange-brown. <b>Capsule</b> inclined ± 180°, brown to red-brown, sometimes stramineous, short-pyriform to urceolate, neck less than 1/3 urn length; exothecial cells isodiametric, walls sinuate; stomata immersed; annulus absent; operculum short- to long-conic; exostome teeth dark brown to red-brown, triangular-acute; endostome yellow to yellow-brown, basal membrane 1/2 exostome length or slightly longer, segments tapered apically, distinctly keeled, broadly perforate, cilia long, nodulose. <b>Spores</b> 13–18 µm, finely roughened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Capsules mature spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed clay or rarely sandy soil, path banks, along streams
|elevation=low elevations
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;N.Y.;N.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Pohlia melanodon</i> has soft, dark green, rather broad ovate-lanceolate leaves with lax, thin-walled cells. The species does not produce elongate sterile cushions as does <i>P. wahlenbergii</i>; even when sterile, the plants have short stems and are rather densely leafy. <i>Pohlia melanodon</i> is more common in eastern North America than collections indicate; it is often sterile and for that reason rarely collected. The exothecial cell walls of capsules of this species are somewhat collenchymatous.</p>
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name=Pohlia melanodon
|authority=(Bridel) A. J. Shaw
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=B. carneum;B. delicatulum
|basionyms=Bryum melanodon
|family=Mielichhoferiaceae
|phenology=Capsules mature spring (Apr–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed clay or rarely sandy soil, path banks, along streams
|elevation=low elevations
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mich.;N.Y.;N.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bryologist
|publication year=1982
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V28/V28_338.xml
|genus=Pohlia
|species=Pohlia melanodon
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