A common mos that grows on trees, dead or alive, on rock
and on walls, in sun and shade, on dry and wet places. So it is
very tolerant for its environment . especially against pollution,
making it a succesfull moss.
description
The leaves end in a very fine thin point, that is often curved.
The nerve is very short.
Cypress-leaved plait-moss covers most of this quercus and also of
the large console fungus called Thick-maze oak polypore (Daedalea quercina).
Cypress-leaved plait-moss close-up
close-up of
mosses or Bryophytes
These are small evergreen plants that can be found
on wet or damp shady places. They have a tiny root system
and reproduce by forming spores. Many mosses are less than
2cm long, very rarely more than 20 centimeter. Most mosses
can be found in the tropical regions, but mosses and
liverworts can even be found on Antartica.
The mosses are called Bryophytes and there are three divisions:
The mosses, liverworts, and hornworts
Mosses are different than the higher plants: mosses don't have
vasculair tissue. So the stems, leaves and roots contain no
vasculair tissue and are therefor not capable to transport large
amounts of fluids.
Most mosses consist of haploid cells: cells that have only one
sample of every chromosome (this is written as n), all the higher
plants (and animals)have two samples of every chromosome,
written as 2n. Have a look at the reproduction of common hair cap:
Moss structures:
Roots
Mosses have small tiny basal processes which
have the function and as roots, but have more the function
rhizoid holdfasts, they are called rhizomes. Leaves
The leaves of roots don't contain vasculair tissue and are only
one cell thick, they are called phyllids, The stem
The stem don't contain vasculair tissue or , but have
hydroid cells that store water.The stem is also called
shoot.
This website shows the common mosses:
