World of Mosses website

A Graphic Guide to Ontario Mosses

by Robert Muma

 

Growth Form Plate #8

Leaves in 2 Ranks and/or forming
Flat (fan-like) Branches

Pleurocarpous

(Pleurocarpous)

CALLICLADIUM
ENTODON
FISSIDENS
HOMALIA
ISOPTERYGIUM
NECKERA
PLAGIOTHECIUM
TAXIPHYLLUM

  

CALLICLADIUM is one of our most common woodland mosses with its single species C. haldanianum on tree roots and rotting logs.  It can also be confusing with its complanate (flattened) branches so similar to other genera.

  

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