fountain apple moss

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fountain apple moss (uncountable)

  1. Philonotis fontana, an epilithic moss in the family Bartramiaceae.
    • 1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses[1], page 39:
      The moss was tall, its stems measuring three or four inches, branched and matted together; the leaves were broad and tapering, of a yellow-green colour; and the long fruit-stalks bore large round reddish urns. It was undoubtedly the Fountain Apple moss (Bartramia fontana, fig. 9).
    • 1883, The Microscopical News and Northern Microscopist[2], volume 3:
      Philonotis fontana, the fountain Apple Moss, is common near springs and in wet places, and has stems 1-6 in., with reddish-black radicles ; leaves ovate-acuminate, short ; nerve almost excurrent ; perigonial leaves, obtuse, nerveless []
    • 2009, Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, Rivers of Europe[3], →ISBN:
      Flora in spring reaches of the Po River is represented by species associated with clear waters and constant discharge, including thick cushions of epilithic mosses such as Schleicher's thread-moss (Bryum schleicheri) and the fountain apple-moss (Philonotis fontana) []

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