Schistidium antarctici is a species of moss found in Antarctica and subantarctic islands.[2] It lives in compact clumps that are yellowish green at the top and brownish black at the bottom. It grows on both soil and rocks.
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Bryophyta |
Class: | Bryopsida |
Subclass: | Dicranidae |
Order: | Grimmiales |
Family: | Grimmiaceae |
Genus: | Schistidium |
Species: | S. antarctici
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Binomial name | |
Schistidium antarctici (Cardot) L. Savic. & Smirn
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In the Windmill Islands area of Wilkes Land, Schistidium antarctici is the most common bryophyte. If its habitat supplies ample moisture, it may form a "carpet-like" growth, but if its habitat is dry, it forms a short "cushion-like" growth.[3] It fruits abundantly on Signy Island and elsewhere in Northern maritime Antarctica.[4]
Each capsule of the moss produces between 250,000 and 520,000 spores, each 9.3 μm in diameter and with a volume of 143 μm3.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Schistidium antarctici (Cardot) L.I. Savicz & Smirnova". World Flora Online. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Taxon Profile: Schistidium antarctici". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- ^ Kappen, L.; R. I. Lewis Smith; M. Meyer (July 1989). "Carbon dioxide exchange of two ecodemes of Schistidium antarctici in Continental Antarctica". Polar Biology. 9 (7). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 415–422. doi:10.1007/BF00443227.
- ^ a b Investment in Sexual Reproduction by Antarctic Mosses P. Convey and R. I. Lewis Smith Oikos, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Nov., 1993), pp. 293-302]