Species: Tetrodontium brownianum

Brown's Four-toothed Moss
Species
    Kingdom
    Plantae
    Phylum
    Bryophyta
    Class

    Bryopsida

    Order

    Tetraphidales

    Family

    Tetraphidaceae

    Genus

    Tetrodontium

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Brown's Tetrodontium Moss - Brown's tetrodontium moss - Little Georgia
    Informal Taxonomy
    Plants, Non-Vascular - Mosses
    Formal Taxonomy
    Plantae - Bryophyta - Bryopsida - Tetraphidales - Tetraphidaceae - Tetrodontium
    Short General Description
    Mosses very small, dull, dark-green or brown, scattered, gregarious, or tufted, 1-1.25 mm high, simple, usually consisting at first of a cluster of polymorphous radical leaves (linear, linear-clavate, or oblong-linear, blunt to acute, often apiculate, sometimes irregularly forked, sinuolate to irregularly serrulate, ecostate or sometimes thickened at the base and along the middle forming an obscure costa), later producing a small budlike cluster of leaves enclosing the archegonia. Stem leaves appressed, obscurely 3-ranked, up to 1.2 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, concave; margins erect, entire or irregularly serrulate above; costa weak, ending well below the apex, sometimes lacking (Crum and Anderson 1981).
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G3G4
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1999-11-23
    Global Status Last Changed
    1999-12-17
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    In Canada, it is known from British Columbia and Ontario and eastward barring Nova Scotia. In the United States, it is known from Washington, northern Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, and Maine. It is also known from Germany, France, England, Scotland, and Japan (Crum and Anderson 1981). Also known from New Zealand (Smith 1978, Quebec (Belland & Schofield 1992) and New Brunswick (Belland 1992; Belland & Schofield 1994).
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