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Should mosses have common names? Part 3. The common names of the primitive orders

1990; American Bryological and Lichenological Society; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/p.346426

2330-9148

Janice M. Glime, Zennoske Iwatsuki,

Lichen and fungal ecology

Although many of the more primitive mosses discussed in this issue are either small or uncommon, a surprising number have common names.Included here are the Andreaeales, Archidiales, Fissidentales, Bryoxiphiales, and Schistostegales.One reason for the abundance of names is that these mosses represent unusual and distinctive mosses, such as the blackish Andreaea, the feather-like Fissidens, the small soil-dwelling Archidium, the highly distinctive Bryoxiphium that has reminded the Japanese of a shrimp, and the luminous Schistostega.This availability of names is in spite of the fact that only Fissidens out of this group seems to have had any sort of economic importance.