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Moss ID HELP (Pictures Included)

16 years ago

I have a moss that I need help with identifying. I have a hunch that it might be Tortula muralis, or star moss, but im not sure. Help please?

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fern244
Original Author
16 years ago
Another Picture : http://yfrog.com/9hp1000707jj
lycopus
16 years ago
An Atrichum sp. Can tell by the capsules and the undulate leaves.
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terrestrial_man
16 years ago
From the Journal of Bryology, 2006, An Annotated Checklist of the mosses of Europe and Macaronesia, there are only five species of Atrichum on the continent.
Atrichum
1 angustatum

2 crispum NO IMAGE-eFlora info only

3 haussknechtii = flavisetum

4 tenellum

5 undulatum

Click on above names to see images

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