Buxbaumia is a genus of twelve moss species, first named in 1742 and later placed into modern botanical nomenclature to honor the German physician and botanist who discovered it near the mouth of the Volga River. For most of its life the plant is microscopic and goes unnoticed, becoming visible only once it produces its distinctively asymmetrical spore capsule, a structure whose shape appears to bridge primitive and modern moss lineages.
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1. Buxbaumia (Wikipedia)
- a genus of twelve species of moss
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Buxbaumia
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However, a recent study of the chloroplast genome in Buxbaumia failed to find any reduction in selective pressure on photosynthetic genes, suggesting that they are fully functional in photosynthesis, and that the moss is not mycoheterotrophic.
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It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River.
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They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
Wikidata: Buxbaumia
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