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Bug Moss

Mosses and Liverworts

Bug moss, Buxbaumia aphylla, is a moss of the family Buxbaumiaceae and the type species of its genus, named for its lopsided, asymmetrical spore capsule, which perches on a short stalk and is thought to resemble a bug or beetle. Unlike most mosses, its green, leafy gametophyte stage is reduced to a microscopic, nearly invisible structure, so that the conspicuous part of the plant a person actually sees is almost entirely the spore-producing capsule itself, an unusual life history among land plants; it is native to North America.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Scientific Name
Buxbaumia aphylla 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Bryopsida, Taxa
Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Buxbaumia aphylla
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Found In

Asia

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Bug MossDistributions
Quote, Distributions
"locality": "Southern Asia", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"
Australia

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Bug MossDistributions
Quote, Distributions
"locality": "Australia", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"
North America

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF species distributions: Bug MossDistributions
Quote, Distributions
"locality": "North America", "status": "PRESENT", "source": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)"
Sources
1. Plant (Wikipedia)
Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
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: Buxbaumia aphylla
GBIFDescriptions: biome
Quote, Descriptions: biome
description: terrestrial
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3. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ135187, descriptionView the Source
4. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Buxbaumia aphylla
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyTaxon record
Quote, Taxon record
"canonicalName": "Buxbaumia aphylla"
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