World of Mosses website

A Graphic Guide to Ontario Mosses

by Robert Muma

 

Growth Form Plate #7

Leaves: Falcate
Hook or Sickle-shaped

Pleurocarpous

(Pleurocarpous)

Growth Form Plate #7

BROTHERELLA
CRATONEURON
CTENIDIUM
DREPANOCLADUS
HYPNUM
PTILIUM

  

The genus HYPNUM is the largest of this group with several common species.  The name comes from a Greek word meaning "sleep" and is believed to have referred to the moss's recumbent nature.  Many of the pleurocarpous mosses were thus formerly classified as HYPNUM species.

  

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