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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.
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 ]
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.
Leafy species can be distinguished from the apparently similar mosses on the basis of a number of features, including their single-celled rhizoids. Leafy liverworts also differ from most (but not all) mosses in that their leaves never have a costa (present in many mosses) and may bear marginal cilia (very rare in mosses). Other differences are ...
Rhizomnium is a genus of mosses in the family Mniaceae [1] commonly referred to as leafy mosses. [2] They grow nearly worldwide, mostly in the northern hemisphere. [1]
Plagiomnium insigne, the badge moss or coastal leafy moss, [1] is a species of moss found on humus in moist, shaded, lowland forests. It can also be found on soil along trails and other shaded, open areas.
Feather moss, or Hypnales, is an order of leafy mosses. Feather moss , feathermoss , or feather-moss may also refer to: Amblystegium confervoides , tiny feather-moss
Rhizomnium glabrescens, also called fan moss or large leafy moss, is a species of moss in the genus Rhizomnium. [1] Description