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A Graphic Guide to Ontario Mosses

by Robert Muma

Growth Form Plate #10

Leaves Multi-Ranked, appressed, julaceous#
forming cylindrical, Rope-like Branches

(Pleurocarpous)

CALLIERGON
CALLIERGONELLA
ENTODON
GRIMMIA*
HEDWIGIA*
LESKEA
LEUCODON
MYURELLA
PLATYDICTYA
PTERYGYNANDRUM
SCLEROPODIUM
SCORPIDIUM
THELIA

# julaceous: smoothly cylindrical

* Although HEDWIGIA and GRIMMIA may at times appear to be either pleurocarpous or acrocarpous, for taxonomic reasons the former is classified as pleurocarpous and the latter as acrocarpous. See also Growth Form Plate #5.

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