Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Catagonium nitens 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
- Plagiothecium piliferum
- Orthorrhynchium elegans
- Entodon cladorrhizans
- Plagiothecium laetum
- Plagiothecium curvifolium
- Pseudotaxiphyllum falcifolium
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Hypnales
- Family
- Catagoniaceae
- Genus
- Catagonium
- Species
- Catagonium nitens
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