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Climacium dendroides, also known as tree climacium moss, [1] [2] belongs in the order Hypnales [3] and family Climaciaceae, [4] in class Bryopsida and subclass Bryidae.It is identified as a "tree moss" due to its distinctive morphological features, and has four species identified across the Northern Hemisphere.
Spanish moss is not parasitic: it is an epiphyte that absorbs nutrients and water through its own leaves from the air and rain falling upon it. While its presence rarely kills the trees on which it grows, it occasionally becomes so thick that, by shading the leaves of the tree, it slows the growth rate of the tree. [7]
Moss species can be classed as growing on: rocks, exposed mineral soil, disturbed soils, acid soil, calcareous soil, cliff seeps and waterfall spray areas, streamsides, shaded humusy soil, downed logs, burnt stumps, tree trunk bases, upper tree trunks, and tree branches or in bogs. Moss species growing on or under trees are often specific about ...
Dendrolycopodium hickeyi is ostensibly very similar to Dendrolycopodium obscurum which overlaps with D. hickeyi in range. While D. obscurum has reduced leaves on the underside of the branches, D. hickeyi has leaves of equal length around the branches [6] [8] [7] (as reflected by its former name, Lycopodium obscurum var. isophyllum: [9] [10] iso-[“equal”] + -phyllum [“leaf”]).
Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, synonym Lycopodium dendroideum, known as tree groundpine, [1] is a North American species of clubmoss. It is part of a complex of species colloquially known as groundpine , which taxa were formerly lumped into the species Lycopodium obscurum .
The leaves are microphylls, each containing only a single vein and measuring less than 1 cm (0.4 inches) long. Two types of microphylls are formed, green trophophylls that cover most of the aerial shoots, and yellow to tan sporophylls that form the strobili, and contain the sporangia .
Gametophyte (leafy vegetation) and sporophyte (upright stalks) generations of Plagiomnium cuspidatum. Plagiomnium cuspidatum, also known as toothed or “baby-tooth” plagiomnium moss and woodsy thyme-moss, is a species of thyme-moss that originated in North America, but can now also be found throughout Middle America, Africa, Northern and Southern Asia (excluding China), and Europe.
Orthotrichum lyellii is generally described as forming green and yellow mats, with loose tufts reaching lengths of 3 to 4 cm forming mound-like structures. [5] Its leaves are sharply pointed with a single costa and lanceolate linear leaf morphology, being very slender and reaching lengths of 2.5 to 6.5 mm. [6] Tufts can reach lengths ranging from 10 to 13 cm, and often are found lying ...