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Myurella tenerrima (Bridel) Lindberg, Musci Scand. 37. 1879.
Pterigynandrum tennerrimum Bridel
Plants pale to yellow-green. Stem leaves widely spaced, erect to spreading, 0.3--0.4 mm, rounded to ovate, acuminate to shortly apiculate, the apiculus ± recurved; margins serrulate; distal laminal cells faintly prorulose.
An Arctic and northern boreal species of moist calcareous habitats; infrequent in fens, rock crevices, and tundra meadows; Greenland; Alta., B.C., Man., Nfld., N.W.T., Nunavut, Ont., Que., Yukon; Alaska; Europe; n Asia; n Africa.
This species is similar to M. julacea in color and general habit, but with widely spaced leaves that end in a well-developed, often recurved apiculus. It differs from M. sibirica in features of the leaf papillae and margins.
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