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Greater Featherwort

Mosses and Liverworts

Greater featherwort, Plagiochila asplenioides, is a robust leafy liverwort of the family Plagiochilaceae that forms large, conspicuous, rounded tufts in woodland, on hedgebanks and in ravines, occasionally also appearing in species-rich grassland. It is widespread across Europe, with populations recorded from Britain through Belgium and the Netherlands, and its bulky growth habit, with separate male and female plants, makes it one of the more readily recognized larger liverworts of shaded, humid ground.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Scientific Name
Plagiochila asplenioides 3
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Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Greater FeatherwortDistributions
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"locality": "Southern Asia", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"

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Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Greater FeatherwortDistributions
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"locality": "North America", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"

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Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Greater FeatherwortDistributions
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"locality": "South America", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"
Sources
1. Plant (Wikipedia)
Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
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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.
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2. GBIF: Plagiochila asplenioides
GBIFDescriptions: biome
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description: terrestrial
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3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Plagiochila asplenioides
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyTaxon record
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"canonicalName": "Plagiochila asplenioides"
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