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The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Leucobryum glaucum – large white-moss; Leucobryum juniperoideum – smaller white-moss; Leucodon sciuroides – squirrel-tail moss; Loeskeobryum brevirostre – short-beaked wood-moss; Meesia triquetra – three-ranked hump-moss; Meesia uliginosa – broad-nerved hump-moss; Microbryum curvicolle – swan-necked earth-moss; Microbryum ...
Polytrichum commune (also known as common haircap, [2] great golden maidenhair, [2] great goldilocks, [2] common haircap moss, or common hair moss) is a species of moss found in many regions with high humidity and rainfall. The species can be exceptionally tall for a moss with stems often exceeding 30 cm (12 in) and rarely reaching 70 cm (27.5 ...
Pleurozium schreberi, the red-stemmed feathermoss [1] or Schreber's big red stem moss, [2] is a moss with a loose growth pattern. [3] The root name pleuro comes from the Latin for ribs, possibly describing how the parts branch from the stem.
Tillandsia recurvata, commonly known as small ballmoss [3] or ball moss, is a flowering plant (not a true moss) in the family Bromeliaceae that grows upon larger host plants. It grows well in areas with low light, little airflow, and high humidity, which is commonly provided by southern shade trees, often the southern live oak ( Quercus ...
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
The species name "dendroides" describes the tree-like morphology of the plant, and its genus name came from the structure of the perforations of peristome teeth. [1] This plant was identified by Weber and Mohr in 1804. [5] [1] They often have stems that are around 2-10 cm tall and growing in the form of patches, [2] looking like small palm ...
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