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Mosses are quite small (usually), non-woody plants that absorb water and nutrients through their leaves. They have a complicated life cycle which alternates between a tiny filmy plant that reproduces sexually and a larger leafy plant stage that reproduces by spores.
Mosses don't have flowers, roots or a vascular system and need to grow in damp, shady places so they don't dry out. Some mosses, however, have adapted to sunny and seasonally dry areas such as Girraween's granite pavements.
Mosses are very ancient plants, more primative even than ferns. There are over 12,700 species world wide and they can be found in arid deserts, rainforests and even in the polar regions.
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These mosses were growing in an exposed area on the Mt Norman track.
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- Andreaea mutabilis Andreaea Moss
- Bartramia robusta -
- Breutelia affinis -
- Philonotis tenuis -
- Gemmabryum subapiculatum -
- Rosulabryum subfasciculatum -
- Dicranoloma dicarpum -
- Dicranoloma menziesii -
- Eucamptodon muelleri Sheath Moss
- Holomitrium perichaetiale var. perichaetiale -
- Sclerodontium pallidum subsp. pallidum -
- Ceratodon purpureus Fire Moss
- Ditrichum difficile -
- Eccremidium minutum -
- Fissidens asplenioides -
- Fissidens curvatus var. curvatus -
- Fissidens leptocladus -
- Fissidens linearis var. linearis -
- Bucklandiella emersa -
- Grimmia laevigata Hoary Grimmia
- Hedwigidium integrifolium -
- Hypnodendron vitiense subsp. australe -
- Hypopterygium tamarisci -
- Leptostomum erectum Pincushion Moss
- Campylopus bicolor var. ericeticola Swan-neck Moss
- Campylopus introflexus -
- Campylopus pyriformis -
- Leucobryum candidum -
- Papillaria flavolimbata -
- Papillaria leuconeura -
- Leptotheca gaudichaudii var. gaudichaudii -
- Macromitrium exsertum -
- Macromitrium hemitrichodes -
- Plagiothecium lamprostachys -
- Pogonatum subulatum -
- Polytrichum commune -
- Isopterygium albescens -
- Wijkia extenuata -
- Rhacocarpus purpurascens -
- Pyrrhobryum paramattense -
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