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Takakia lepidozioides is a species of moss in the Takakiaceae family, one of two species of Takakia.It is characterized by its tiny bifid leaves in which each segment is only a few cells wide, conspicuous rhizomous shoots, and long leafless stolon shoots which facilitate the colonization of bare areas.
Their stems are naked, up to 3 cm high, are shiny and have large leaves. Male plants have large, rose-like clusters of leaves at the tip while female plants have capsules. It is very common on rotting logs, humus and soil over rocks in low- and middle-elevation forests. It is the most common species of leafy moss in low-elevation forests. [2]
Buxbaumia (bug moss, bug-on-a-stick, humpbacked elves, or elf-cap moss) [2] is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig [3] to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River. [2]
Plagiomnium venustum, also known as magnificent leafy moss, is a species of moss belonging to the family Mniaceae. [2] It is found mainly in western North America along the coastal region. [ 3 ] This moss can be identified from other members of the Plagiomnium genus by dark coloured stomata guide cells and the absence of sterile stems. [ 2 ]
This moss has a striped appearance because of the formation of the pleated leaves. The leaves are glossy, heart-shaped or cordate and grow in an irregular arrangement on pinnate branches. The leaves can grow to be 4-5 millimeters long. The coloration of the leaves on lanky moss range from shades of yellow to dark olive green.
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.
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Lycopodium clavatum is a spore-bearing vascular plant, growing mainly prostrate along the ground with stems up to 1 m (39 in) long; the stems are much branched, and densely clothed with small, spirally arranged microphyll leaves. The leaves are 3–5 mm long and 0.7–1 mm broad, tapered to a fine hair-like white point.