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  2. Hypnum cupressiforme - Wikipedia

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    Hypnum cupressiforme, the cypress-leaved plaitmoss [3] or hypnum moss, is a common and widespread species of moss belonging to the genus Hypnum. It is found in all continents except Antarctica and occurs in a wide variety of habitats and climatic zones. It typically grows on tree trunks, logs, walls, rocks and other surfaces.

  3. Hypnum - Wikipedia

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    Identifying moss species in the field to the genus Hypnum by using a hand lens is considered quite feasible since most Hypnum species share common features with one another. [3] A very useful defining characteristic of Hypnum mosses are their leaves which are often falcate-secund (meaning that they are sickle-shaped and point to one side of the ...

  4. Moss - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Moss lawn - Wikipedia

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    Moss lawns can be started by several different methods: [14] Buying sheets of moss from plant nurseries and transplanting. [33] Because moss can go dormant for long periods, it is easy to ship. [3] Wild-collected: moss collection from the wild has led to serious environmental problems in some areas. [34]

  6. Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus - Wikipedia

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    Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus is a species of moss known as springy turf-moss in the United Kingdom, [2] [3] and square goose neck moss in the United States. [1] [4] It is widespread in Eurasia and North America, and has been introduced to the Southern Hemisphere. It has broad ecological tolerances, and is usually found in man-made habitats such ...

  7. Hypnales - Wikipedia

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    Hypnales is the botanical name of an order of Bryophyta or leafy mosses.This group is sometimes called feather mosses, referring to their freely branched stems. [1] The order includes more than 40 families and more than 4,000 species, making them the largest order of mosses.

  8. List of mosses of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world, can grow to 50 cm (20 in) in height. Mosses are commonly confused with hornworts , liverworts and lichens . [ 2 ] Mosses were formerly grouped with the hornworts and liverworts as "non-vascular" plants in the division " bryophytes ", all of them having the haploid gametophyte generation as the dominant ...

  9. Sphagnum palustre - Wikipedia

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    Sphagnum palustre (Syn. Sphagnum cymbifolium), the prairie sphagnum [1] or blunt-leaved bogmoss, [2] is a species of peat moss from the genus Sphagnum, in the family Sphagnaceae. Like other mosses of this type it can soak up water up to the 30-fold amount of its own dry weight thanks to its elastic spiral fibers.

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