Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin
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- Family
- Brachytheciaceae
- Botanical Name
- Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin
- Common Name
- Synonym(s)
- Brachythecium acuminatum var. cyrtophyllum (Kindb.) Redf. ex H.A. Crum; Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A. Jaeger [as to type]
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Not applicable
- Comments
- Robinson & Ignatov have shown that the type of B. oxycladon (Hypnum oxycladon) belongs here whereas the name has been misapplied by North American bryologists to B. laetum (see Bryologist 100:359-361 (1997)).
See Comment under B. laetum regarding the illustration in Crum and Anderson (1981).
Brachythecium acuminatum is a common species in the Southeast; in Virginia, collections named as B. campestre (not attributed to Virginia in FNA) may belong here, or to B. rotaeanum. - Habitat
- Allen (2014) gives the habitat as "bases of trees, on rooting logs and soil, or on thin soil over rocks."
- Native Status
- Native
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