Species: Tetrodontium brownianum
Brown's Four-toothed Moss
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Tetraphidales
Family
Tetraphidaceae
Genus
Tetrodontium
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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
Ecology and Life History
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).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G3G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
1999-11-23
Global Status Last Changed
1999-12-17
Distribution
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).

