Species: Brachydontium trichodes
Peak Moss
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Seligeriales
Family
Seligeriaceae
Genus
Brachydontium
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
brachydontium moss
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Non-Vascular - Mosses
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Bryophyta - Bryopsida - Seligeriales - Seligeriaceae - Brachydontium
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Very small, dull, yellow-brown mosses. Leaves crowded, erect, in many rows but often somewhat flattened and appearing 2-ranked, linear-subulate. Costa filling most of the subula and excurrent. Setae erect, yellow, twisted above when dry (Crum and Anderson 1981).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G2G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
1998-10-22
Global Status Last Changed
1998-10-22
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Known from northern and central Europe, including the mountains of Germany and Switzerland, also from England and Wales. It has also been reported from Norway and the Caucasus. In North America, it occurs on Mt. Rainier in Washington and in the mountains of New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Tennessee (Crum and Anderson 1981).