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Binomial name. Campylopus introflexus. (Hedw.) Brid. Synonyms. Dicranum introflexum Hedw. World distribution. Campylopus introflexus, also known as the heath star moss, [1] is a species of moss. The first description of the species was made by Johannes Hedwig as Dicranum introflexum in 1801.
Chloroplasts (green discs) and accumulated starch granules in cells of Bryum capillare. Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are usually small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.
Bryophyte. Bryophytes (/ ˈbraɪ.əˌfaɪts /) [ 1 ] are a group of land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. [ 2 ] In the strict sense, the division Bryophyta consists of the mosses only.
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 most abundant moss species.
Ceratodon purpureus. (Hedw.) Brid. Ceratodon dimorphusMielichhoferia recurvifolia. Ceratodon purpureus is a dioicous moss with a color ranging from yellow-green to red. [ 1 ] The height amounts to 3 centimeters. It is found worldwide, mainly in urban areas and next to roads on dry sand soils. [ 2 ]
Chondrus crispus is a relatively small sea alga, reaching up to a little more than 20 cm in length. It grows from a discoid holdfast and branches four or five times in a dichotomous, fan-like manner. The morphology is highly variable, especially the broadness of the thalli. The branches are 2–15 mm broad and firm in texture, and the color ...
Sagina subulata (syn. Sagina pilifera), the heath pearlwort, [2] Irish-moss, [3] awl-leaf pearlwort[4] or Scottish moss, is a species of flowering plant in the pink and carnation family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Europe, from Iceland south to Spain, and east to southern Sweden and Romania. It occurs on dry sandy or gravelly soils. [5][6][7]
Polytrichum is a genus of mosses — commonly called haircap moss or hair moss — which contains approximately 70 species that have a cosmopolitan distribution. The genus Polytrichum has a number of closely related sporophytic characters. The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek words polys, meaning "many", and thrix, meaning "hair".