Plagiothecium succulentum var. succulentum Lindb.

Plagiothecium succulentum var. succulentum (Wilson) Lindb., Botaniska Notiser 43: 143. 1865. ≡ Hypnum denticulatum var. succulentum Wilson, Bryologia Britannica 407. 1855 ≡ Hypnum succulentum Wilson, Bryologia Britannica 407. 1855, nom. inval. ≡ Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. succulentum (Wilson) Spruce, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 18: 357. 1880 ≡ Plagiothecium denticulatum var. succulentum (Wilson) Dixon, The Student’s Handbook of British Mosses 437. 1896 ≡ Plagiothecium sylvaticum ssp. succulentum (Wilson) Amann & Meyl., Flore des Mousses de la Suisse 1: 174. 1919 ≡ Plagiothecium laetum subsp. succulentum (Wilson) Szafran, Flora Polska Mchy (Musci) 2: 281. 1961. Type: [Great Britain,] Winwick Stone Quarry, near Warrington, Wilson; near Todmorden, J. Nowell. = Plagiothecium succulentum fo. flavescens Mönk. in sched. Basis: [Denmark,] Insel Bornkolm, bei Helligdommen, Juli 1910, W. Mönkemeyer; [Germany,] Fichtelgebirge, unten Bischofsgrün, Juli 1903, W. Mönkemeyer; Leipzig, Eilenburg bei Gantsch. Oct. 1905, W. Mönkemeyer, HBG! syn. nov. Description. Plants medium-sized to large, usually yellowish gold, golden green, golden, very glossy; stems to 3 cm long; leaves spreading, in dry condition not shrunken, complanate, symmetrical, ovate, 2.50–3.00 × 0.80–1.40 mm (Fig. 5 A); apex acuminate and not denticulate; laminal cells 130–240 × 10–18 μm at mid-leaf (Fig. 5 D), cell areolation quite loose; decurrencies of 2–3 rows of rectangular cells; capsule inclined. Distribution. Asia (China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Georgia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Turkey); Europe (Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom); North America (Canada and U. S. A.).