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A Graphic Guide to Ontario Mosses

by Robert Muma

 

Growth Form Plate #9

Dendroid (tree-shaped)
and Sub-Dendroid Plants

Pleurocarpous

(Pleurocarpous)

BRACHYTHECIUM
BRYHNIA
CLIMACIUM
EURHYNCHIUM
ISOTHECIUM
STOKESIELLA

  

CLIMACIUM is the most typically dendroid of these genera.  All of the others are members of the family BRACHYTHECEAE and various BRACHYTHECIUM species may be found growing dendroid in very wet or deep grassy places.

  

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