Ptilium_(plant)

<i>Ptilium</i> (plant)

Ptilium (plant)

Genus of mosses

For other uses, see Ptilium.

Ptilium is a genus of mosses with very broad worldwide occurrence. This genus is within the family Hypnaceae,[1][2] in the class Bryopsida, subclass Bryidae and order Hypnales.

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Ecology

Some of these species occur on the floor of Canadian boreal forests; an example of this occurrence is within the black spruce/feathermoss climax forest, often having moderately dense canopy and featuring a forest floor of feathermosses including, according to Hogan, Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi and Ptilium crista-castrensis.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Stech, Michael; Frey, Wolfgang (2008). "A morpho-molecular classification of the mosses (Bryophyta)". Nova Hedwigia. 86 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1127/0029-5035/2008/0086-0001. ISSN 0029-5035.
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  3. [3]
    C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg


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