Hypnobryales
Hypnobryales
[¦hip·nō‚brī′ā·lēz] (botany)
An order of mosses composed of procumbent and pleurocumbent plants with usually symmetrical leaves arranged in more than two rows.
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References in periodicals archive
Flora of Madeiran pleurocarpous mosses (Isobryales,
Hypnobryales, Hookeriales).
Bogs are widely distributed throughout the tundra and are dominated by sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum), towards the south to such a great extent that bogs of sphagnum mosses tend to replace the bogs of species of mosses belonging to the order
Hypnobryales, which are the most common in the more northerly latitudes.
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