Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 20, 2019
The Flora of North America describes the distribution of brown screw-moss as spanning western North America (including Mexico), western and southern South America, Europe, western Asia, Africa, some of the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), Australia, and Antarctica. It is therefore one of the relatively few multicellular species that can be found on all major […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 31, 2018
Ragged-leaf liverwort is a widely-distributed liverwort of forests and bogs. The Encyclopedia of Life entry for Schistochilopsis incisa (now a synonymous name) displays a map with collections across the Northern Hemisphere from Arctic regions to near the equator in South America. It also uses the common name jagged notchwort.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 13, 2018
Some sites use duplicate tube lichen as a common name for this composite organism, but I prefer tickertape bone lichen. As Richard (the photographer) notes, this a popular species in lichen charades–either common name will do.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 24, 2018
Missing from today’s entry and previous entries on Anemone occidentalis is a photograph of the flower. One of today’s photographers, Emma Harrower, has a good example here: Anemone occidentalis.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 8, 2017
Ribes acerifolium (syn. Ribes howellii), also known as Howell’s gooseberry, maple-leaved currant, maple-leaf currant, and maple-leaved blackcurrant, is a deciduous perennial shrub native from southern British Columbia to Oregon and eastward to Idaho in the USA. Habitats include moist meadows, open ridges, rocky slopes, and streambanks at elevations from about 990m (3250 ft.) upwards to […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 2, 2017
For many years, North American lichenologists (mis)applied the name Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii to Umbilicaria polaris. This was only rectified in recent years in a 2011 paper by EA Davydov et al. in Herzogia 24:251–263: Contribution to the Study of Umbilicariaceae (Lichenized Ascomycota) in Russia. II. Kamchatka Peninsula, where the authors note that Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii is actually […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 16, 2015
Allotropa virgata, or candystick, is a perennial species of western North America. It is a mycoheterotroph, meaning that it forms a part of a complex threesome, obtaining all of its carbohydrates and at least some of its minerals from a fungus, which in turn obtains its carbohydrates from a tree or shrub. The fungus provides […]
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