Odontoschisma sphagni, commonly known as bog-moss flapwort, is a species of liverwort in the family Cephaloziaceae. It grows in raised bogs on moist, peaty soil, on rotten and dead wood or on thin soil covering moist sandstone rock in evergreen or deciduous forests. It sometimes grows among mosses.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Bog-moss flapwort being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Syzygiella autumnalis
- Odontoschisma denudatum
- Jungermannia atrovirens
- Nardia scalaris
- Pedinophyllum interruptum
- Odontoschisma fluitans
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Marchantiophyta
- Class
- Jungermanniopsida
- Order
- Jungermanniales
- Family
- Cephaloziaceae
- Genus
- Odontoschisma
- Species
- Odontoschisma sphagni
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