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Bruchia (plant)

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Genus of haplolepideous mosses

Bruchia
Bruchia flexuosa - This small moss was photographed on soil near a trail in Middletown Trailside County Park, Lake County, California.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Bruchiales
Family: Bruchiaceae
Genus: Bruchia
Schwägrichen, 1824
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Bruchia is a genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the family Bruchiaceae.

The genus name of Bruchia is in honour of Philipp Bruch (1781–1847), a German pharmacist and bryologist born in Zweibrücken.

The genus was circumscribed by Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen in Sp. Musc. Suppl. Vol.2 (Issue 1) on page 91 in 1824.

Species

References

  1. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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Bruchia


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