Buxbaumia
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Buxbaumia (bug moss, bug-on-a-stick, humpbacked elves, or elf-cap moss)[2] is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig[3] to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River.[2] The moss is microscopic for most of its existence, and plants are noticeable only after they begin to produce their reproductive structures. The asymmetrical spore capsule has a distinctive shape and structure, some features of which appear to be transitional from those in primitive mosses to most modern mosses.
Buxbaumia | |
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Buxbaumia viridis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Bryophyta |
Class: | Bryopsida |
Subclass: | Buxbaumiidae Doweld |
Order: | Buxbaumiales M.Fleisch. |
Family: | Buxbaumiaceae Schimp. |
Genus: | Buxbaumia Hedw., 1801[1] |
Type species | |
Buxbaumia aphylla Hedw. | |
Species | |
See Classification |