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Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, [2] splendid feather moss, [3] stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss [4] with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests. It is commonly found in Europe, Russia, Alaska and Canada, where it is often the
Prothallus of the tree fern Dicksonia antarctica (note new moss plants for scale) Spore-bearing plants, like all plants, go through a life-cycle of alternation of generations. The fully grown sporophyte, what is commonly referred to as the fern, produces genetically unique spores in the sori by meiosis.
The moss life-cycle starts with a haploid spore that germinates to produce a protonema (pl. protonemata), which is either a mass of thread-like filaments or thalloid (flat and thallus-like). Massed moss protonemata typically look like a thin green felt, and may grow on damp soil, tree bark, rocks, concrete, or almost any other reasonably stable ...
Azolla (mosquito fern, water fern, fairy moss) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. They are extremely reduced in form and specialized, looking nothing like other typical ferns but more resembling the form of some mosses or even duckweeds .
A protonema (plural: protonemata) is a thread-like chain of cells that forms the earliest stage of development of the gametophyte (the haploid phase) in the life cycle of mosses. When a moss first grows from a spore, it starts as a germ tube, which lengthens and branches into a filamentous complex known as a protonema, from which a leafy ...
Cyathophorum bulbosum is dioicous, meaning that male and females are separate ‘plants’.The life cycle is dominated by the gametophyte stage. There are no other moss species within Australia that look similar. Though it may be confused with Schistochila lehmanniana.
Fern moss may refer to several varieties of moss that produce feathery fronds and can form a moss carpet across grass or bare patches of ground: Hylocomium splendens. Fissidens bryoides [commons; species; ceb; is; nl; pl; sv; uk; vi; zh; wikidata] – lesser fern moss; Hylocomium splendens or Hylocomium proliferum – mountain fern moss
Thuidium delicatulum, also known as the delicate fern moss [2] or common fern moss, [3] is a widespread species of moss in the family Thuidiaceae. It is found in North and South America from Alaska to Brazil.