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Catagoniaceae
Catagoniaceae is a small family of mosses in the order Hypnales, distinguished by its hypnoid peristome characterized by well-developed, ornamented exostomial teeth and leaves with double costae. Species typically grow in compact tufts or dense mats on various substrates, including tree trunks (corticicolous), rocks (rupicolous), and soil (terricolous). The family has a disjunct distribution, primarily found in South America (especially Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest) and Oceania. In Brazil, these mosses inhabit diverse vegetation types such as ombrophilous forests and high-altitude environments. Morphology Catagoniaceae species are relatively small, forming dense green mats. They feature: * Ascending stems (caulidia) with irregular or simple branching * Cylindrical or flattened shoots * Rhizoids with projections at the stem base * Clustered oblong-ovate to elliptic leaves with abruptly apiculate tips * Dioicous sexuality * A double-layered peristome (exostome an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catagonium
''Catagonium'' is a genus of moss belonging to the family Catagoniaceae. It has a all over the world, especially in the Tropical Region. Species There are 9 species: * '' Catagonium brevicaudatum'' * '' Catagonium complanatum'' * '' Catagonium emarginatum'' * '' Catagonium gracile'' * '' Catagonium mucronatum'' * '' Catagonium nitens'' * '' Catagonium nitidum'' * '' Catagonium politum'' * '' Catagonium serrulatum'' References Catagoniaceae Moss genera Taxa named by Karl Müller (bryologist) Taxa named by Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus {{hypnales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypnales
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. The order includes more than 40 families and more than 4,000 species, making them the largest order of mosses. Description Hypnales are mosses with pinnately or irregularly branched, reclining stems, with varying appearances. The stem contains only a reduced central vascular bundle, which is seen as a recent derived trait in mosses. The stems are covered with paraphyllia or pseudoparaphyllia, reduced filamentous or scaly leaves. The ordinary stem leaves are ovate to lanceolate, often with leaf wing cells. The midvein is often limited to the lower half of the leaf blade, or has completely disappeared. The cells of the leaf blade are prosenchymatic, many times longer than wide, with pointed ends interlocking. The sporophyte consists of a regularly shaped sporangium on a long stalk or seta. The spores are distribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russel Buck
William Russel Buck (born December 27, 1950) is an American bryologist. Publications * , (1986) ''Suggestions for a new familial classification of pleurocarpous mosses''. Taxon 35 (1): 21–60. * , (2000) ''Morphology and classification of mosses''. pp. 71–123 ''in'' Shaw, A. J. & B. Goffinet (eds.) ''Bryophyte Biology'', 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66097-1 * , , , (2004) ''Ordinal relationships of pleurocarpous mosses, with special emphasis on the Hookeriales''. Systematics and Biodiversity 2: 121–145. * , (2004) ''Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification''. Monographs in Systematic Botany olecular Systematics of Bryophytes98: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5 * , , (2008) ''Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta''. pp. 55–138 ''in'' Goffinet, B. & J. Shaw (eds.) ''Bryophyte Biology'', 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. * , , (2012Classification of the Bryophyta(efter Goffinet, Buck, & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland (Bryologist)
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain.The 2022 population of the Republic of Ireland was 5,123,536 and that of Northern Ireland in 2021 was 1,903,100. These are Census data from the official governmental statistics agencies in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion of the Americas. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Drake Passage; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territory, dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one administrative division, internal territory: French Guiana. The Dutch Caribbean ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and Trinidad and Tobago are geologically located on the South-American continental shel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oceania
Oceania ( , ) is a region, geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Outside of the English-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered a continent, while Mainland Australia is regarded as its continental landmass. Spanning the Eastern Hemisphere, Eastern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres, at the centre of the land and water hemispheres, water hemisphere, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about and a population of around 46.3 million as of 2024. Oceania is the smallest continent in land area and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, second-least populated after Antarctica. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the developed country, highly developed and globally competitive market economy, financial markets of Australia, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and New Zealand, which rank high in quality of life and Human Development Index, to the much least developed countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses , of which are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 Indigenous territory (Brazil), indigenous territories. The majority of the forest, 60%, is in Amazônia Legal, Brazil, followed by Peruvian Amazonia, Peru with 13%, Amazon natural region, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Four nations have "Amazonas (other), Amazonas" as the name of one of their first-level administrative regions, and France uses the name "Guiana Amazonian Park" for French Guiana's protected rainforest area. The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforests on Earth, and comprises the largest a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachytheciaceae
Brachytheciaceae is a family of mosses from the order Hypnales. The family includes over 40 genera and 250 species. Description The family consists of pleurocarpous mosses with very diverse appearances. They are irregular or pinnately branched and form loose mats. The leaves are broad ovate or triangular and are sharply focused at the top. A midrib is always present and usually reaches more than half of the leaf. The leaf cells are prosenchymatous and are many times longer than wide and interlocking with pointed ends. The sporophyte consists of a regularly formed spore capsule that stands straight on the setae. The spores are distributed through an annular peristome, which is closed off by a beak-shaped operculum in immature plants. Habitat Species are terrestrial, epiphytic, or lithophytic plants that are distributed around the world. They grow on various substrates, including rock, bark, and soil. Taxonomy Brachytheciaceae is in the order Hypnales. They are a sister g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypnaceae
Hypnaceae is a large family of moss with broad worldwide occurrence in the class Bryopsida, subclass Bryidae and order Hypnales. Genera include ''Hypnum'', ''Phyllodon (plant), Phyllodon'', and ''Taxiphyllum''. Ecology Some of the family species occur on the floor of Canada, Canadian boreal forests; an example of this occurrence is within the black spruce/feathermoss Climax community, climax forest, often having moderately dense canopy and featuring a forest floor of feathermosses including, ''Hylocomium splendens'', ''Pleurozium schreberi'' and ''Ptilium crista-castrensis''. Classification The family Hypanaceae includes the following genera: *''Acritodon'' *''Austrohondaella'' *''Bryosedgwickia'' *''Chryso-hypnum'' *''Crepidophyllum'' *''Ctenidiadelphus'' *''Cyathothecium'' *''Dacryophyllum'' *''Ectropotheciella'' *''Ectropotheciopsis'' *''Ectropothecium'' *''Elharveya'' *''Elmeriobryum'' *''Entodontella'' *''Eurohypnum'' *''Foreauella'' *''Glossadelphus'' *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moss Families
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. Mosses typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched and has only a limited role in conducting water and nutrients. Although some species have conducting tissues, these are generally poorly developed and structurally different from similar tissue found in vascular plants. Mosses do not have seeds and after fertilisation develop sporophytes with unbranched stalks topped with single capsules containing spores. They are typically tall, though some species are much larger. ''Dawsonia'', the tallest moss in the world, can grow to in height. There are ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
