Thamnobryum alleghaniense, the Allegany thamnobryum moss, is located in temperate regions, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. This moss has drooping branches at the top of a standing stem, resembling small trees in a micro forest. T. alleghaniense is common on rocks in moist, wet, and shady gorges and ravines. Leaf shape is ovate (-oblong), sometimes lanceolate or ligulate. Seta is 10-25mm. Contain dioecious reproduction, and rarely polyocious.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Alleghany Thamnobryum Moss 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
- Thamnobryum alopecurum
- Hypnodendron arcuatum
- Hypnodendron vitiense
- Camptochaete angustata
- Pseudisothecium myosuroides
- Thamnobryum neckeroides
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Hypnales
- Family
- Neckeraceae
- Genus
- Thamnobryum
- Species
- Thamnobryum alleghaniense
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