Pleurozium schreberi
| Pleurozium schreberi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Dicranidae |
| Order: | Hypnales |
| Family: | Hylocomiaceae |
| Genus: | Pleurozium |
| Species: | P. schreberi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt. | |
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.
The species occurs on the floor of the boreal forests of Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia; an example of this occurrence is within the black spruce/feathermoss climax forest, sometimes having moderately dense overstory canopy and featuring a forest floor of feathermosses including, Hylocomium splendens and Ptilium crista-castrensis.[4]
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Pleurozium schreberi carpeting the floor of black spruce (Picea mariana) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea) forest in New Brunswick, Canada.
References
- ↑ Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.
- ↑ "Pleurozium schreberi". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ↑ Journal Linn. Soc. Bot. 1869. Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt., 12: 537. 1869.
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
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