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meesia moss
Scientific Name: Meesia uliginosa
Family: Meesiaceae
Category: Moss
Growth: Nonvascular
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Other Names:
Meesia Mosses
This page provides information on several moss species within the genus Meesia, including Meesia triquetra and Meesia uliginosa.
Considerations for Pets
- These mosses are sometimes found in gardens.
Scientific Name and Common Names
- Scientific Name: Meesia triquetra (and other Meesia species like Meesia uliginosa)
- Common Name: Meesia moss, Three-ranked Thread Moss, Three-angled Hump-moss, Broad-nerved Hump-moss
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Kingdom: Not explicitly mentioned but implicitly Plantae (based on being a moss)
- Division: Bryophyta
- Class: Bryopsida
- Order: Bryales
- Family: Meesiaceae
- Synonyms: Mnium triquetrum, Meesia triquetra (L. ex Jolycl.)
Distribution and Habitat
- These mosses are found all around the northern hemisphere in higher latitudes.
- Meesia uliginosa is a rare moss of the Western U.S.
- Meesia triquetra has been found in peat deposits in NW Iran as a subfossil.
Morphological Characteristics
- General Appearance: Acrocarpous (Vitt 1988), scattered or tufted.
- Color: Dark green to yellow-green, often blackish below.
- Stems: 2-14 cm tall, simple, but occasionally a little branched.
- Meesia uliginosa forms dark green tufts up to 5 cm tall, with leaves 2–6 mm long.
- Leaves are spreading to squarrose ovate-lanceolate.
- Asymmetrical, curved capsule.
Ecological Role
- Some Meesia species, such as Meesia uliginosa, occur where there is some lime in the run-off.
Further Information
- Encyclopedia of Life
- GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants (for Meesia uliginosa in California)
- Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
- Biopix for images.