Species: Plagiobryum zieri
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Bryales
Family
Bryaceae
Genus
Plagiobryum
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Non-Vascular - Mosses
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Bryophyta - Bryopsida - Bryales - Bryaceae - Plagiobryum - Ireland et al. (1980 and 1987; Canadian moss checklist) spell this Plagiobryum zierii.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Mosses in dense, soft tufts, shiny, white or yellowish and often tinged with pink. Stems red or pink, considerably forked by julaceous innovations. Leaves of innovations 1-2 mm long, crowded and erect or imbricate, thin and soft, concave, ovate or broadly oblong-ovate, acute and rather abruptly narrowed to a short, reflexed point; margins plane and entire; costa reddish, ending in or slightly below the leaf point. Leaves of the fruiting axis oblong-lanceolate, with margins irregularly recurved. Capsules horizontal or somewhat pendulous, the neck up to about twice the length of the urn; peristome teeth somewhat shorter than the endostome, very finely or obscurely papillose (Crum and Anderson 1981).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2005-03-31
Global Status Last Changed
2005-03-31
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Smuggler's Notch, Vermont, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Greenland in eastern North America; arctic Alaska to Washington, Idaho, and Alberta to Colorado in western North America. Also known from mountainous areas throughout Europe, the Caucasus, China, Japan, Turkestan, Siberia, and eastern India (Crum and Anderson 1981). Also in Iceland, Faeroes, north Africa, and Turkey (Hill et al 1994). Found throughout Scandinavia (Martensson 1956, Nyholm 1954-69).