Buxbaumia

For the bryological journal, see Buxbaumia (journal).

Buxbaumia
Buxbaumia viridis
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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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.

  1. ^ Hedwig, Johann (1801). Species Muscorum frondosorum descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii. Leipzig. p. 166.
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