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Polytrichum juniperinum (juniper polytrichum moss)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polytrichum juniperinum, commonly known as juniper haircap or juniper polytrichum moss, is an evergreen and perennial species of moss that is widely distributed, growing on every continent including Antarctica.
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Infraspecies

Polytrichum juniperinum var. affine
Polytrichum juniperinum var. juniperum
Polytrichum juniperinum var. paulense
Polytrichum juniperinum var. tumescens

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Moss
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Mostly Acid
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
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External References

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Pseudomys higginsi, Michael M. Driessen and Robert K. Rose, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 623, pp. 1-5 (1999)
♦ 7Diet of the south polar skua Catharacta maccormicki and the brown skua C. antarctica lonnbergi at Cierva Point, Antarctic Peninsula, Silvina L. Malzof, Rubén D. Quintana, Polar Biol (2008) 31:827–835
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0