Microhexura montivaga (Spruce-fir Moss Spider) is a federally endangered arachnid endemic to high-elevation montane conifer forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The spider is cryptic and ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHESTNUT (2006), pp. 28-32 (5 pages) The bryophyte epiphytic biodiversity in some chestnut stands ...

Modern Farmer: What motivated you to start Mountain Moss? ‘Every time I see the bulldozers, my heart aches for all of the plants that got destroyed.’ Annie Martin: I had a two-pronged stimulus. Number ...

At the 2021 International Association of Bryophyte conference on July 9, the Riclef Grolle Award was bestowed on Zhang Li from Shenzhen, Guangdong province, the second Chinese bryologist to be given ...

Bryophytes, comprising mosses, liverworts and hornworts, possess a unique and diverse chemical repertoire that has attracted increasing research attention. Their natural products include an array of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A volunteer team at the California Academy of Sciences has reached a milestone in its research collection. The academy now has more than 100,000 specimens of a plant group called ...

Under the roof of what was once to become the residence of the future King of Finland, researchers painstakingly study herbarium specimens of mosses, liverworts and hornworts, also known as bryophytes ...

A major question in evolutionary biology is how mating patterns affect the fitness of offspring. However, in animals and seed plants it is virtually impossible to investigate the effects of specific ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Learning about flowering plants (angiosperms) can be a lifelong study for a gardener. One report states that they include 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and about 295,383 known ...

Good news, mountain lovers! India has just got its first Moss garden which was inaugurated at Nainital district in Uttarakhand by Rajendra Singh, Ramon Magsaysay awardee and well-known water ...