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Hylocomium splendens

  • Family name: Hylocomiaceae
  • Common name: Splendid feather moss
  • Growth form: Moss
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Hylocomium splendens
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Hylocomium splendens
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Hylocomium splendens, Hylocomium splendens obtusifolium
    • Imnavait Creek Permanent Plots: Hylocomium splendens
    • Happy Valley Permanent Plots: Hylocomium splendens

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  1. Hylocomium splendens    , Splendid feather moss
  2. Image author: Michael Simpson ©
    Website: Bryophytes of North America
    See also: Please contact Michael Simpson for permission to use
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  1. Hylocomium splendens    , Splendid feather moss
  2. The species Hylocomium splendens grows in 'floors': Out of the middle of a frond grows the next one at first straight up, until it finally forms the next 'floor'. On the picture the young shoots of the next floor have already formed a small wood.
    Image author: Michael Becker ©
    Website: Pictures of Mosses and Ferns
    Source of original image

  1. Hylocomium splendens    , Splendid feather moss
  2. Clump of stems
    Japan, 11/23/03
    Image author: unknown
    Website: Sights of Shiretoko
    Source of original image

  1. Hylocomium splendens    , Splendid feather moss
  2. Close-up of fruiting plants
    Image author: Lars Hedenäs ©
    Website: Virtual Exhibitons of the Swedish Museum of Natural History
    Source of original image