Isothecium myosuroides

Isothecium myosuroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Subclass:	Bryidae
Order:	Hypnales
Family:	Lembophyllaceae
Genus:	Isothecium
Species:	I. myosuroides
Binomial name
	Isothecium myosuroides; Brid.

Isothecium myosuroides, commonly known as slender mouse-tail moss^[1] or tree moss, is a true moss that grows abundantly on both rocks and trees. It is native to Western and Eastern North America, as well as parts of Western Europe. ^[2] It grows preferentially on angiosperms rather than on conifers because of the manner in which the former take in water creating an ideal moist habitat for the moss to grow on, and because many trees in the flowering plant families are less acidic than coniferous species of trees. Isothecium myosuroides also can grow on rocks.

References

^ Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.
^ "Mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium myosuroides)". iNaturalist.org. Retrieved 2018-12-13.

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[BBS-1] Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.

[2] "Mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium myosuroides)". iNaturalist.org. Retrieved 2018-12-13.

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