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Bonfire Moss

Mosses and Liverworts

Bonfire moss (Funaria hygrometrica), also called common cord-moss, is a moss of the family Funariaceae with a green, soft, upright plant body about half an inch tall, branched rhizoids with oblique cross-walls, and spirally arranged leaves with a distinct midrib; it carries a male reproductive structure at the tip of its main stem and a female structure on a side branch. It grows on shady, moist soil and can colonize moist walls, rock crevices, and ground recently burned by fire, and has even been found growing in artificially lit caves with no natural light, where it develops longer stems and narrower leaves. Studies have found it unusually tolerant of heavy water, able to survive in water that is 90 percent deuterium oxide.

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Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G5 Secure 3
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Conservation Status
Not Evaluated 5
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Bryopsida, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Funaria
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Sources
1. Funaria hygrometrica (Wikipedia)
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 342307
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Funaria hygrometrica, the bonfire moss or common cord-moss, is a type of water moss which grows on shady, moist soil.
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2. GBIF Species API
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3. NatureServe Explorer: Funaria hygrometrica
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
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"roundedGRank": "G5"
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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Plantae
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45
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"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Plants","language":"EN"},{"name":"Flora","language":"EN"}],"cites_listings":[]
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5. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Funaria hygrometrica
GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 5281229, category field
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"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Wikidata: Funaria
Child Taxon Of: Bryopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
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