Calliergon giganteum

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,701 meters (0 to 15,423 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Calliergon moldavicum (Velenovsky) Podpe • Calliergon subsarmentosum Kindberg • Hypnum cyclophyllotum Holzinger • Hypnum giganteum (Holzinger) R. S. Williams • Hypnum moldavicum Velenovsky

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 19-Jul-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calliergon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. cordifolium (Calliergon Moss) · C. giganteum (Giant Calliergon Moss) · C. macounii (Macoun's Calliergon Moss) · C. megalophyllum (Calliergon Moss) · C. obtusifolium (Calliergon Moss) · C. orbicularicordatum (Calliergon Moss) · C. richardsonii (Richardson's Calliergon Moss) · C. stramineum (Calliergon Moss) · C. trifarium (Calliergon Moss)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A manual of the mosses of western Pennsylvania and adjacent regions. Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 1951. url p. 240, p. 241.
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 16.
• Canada's missing dimension: science and history in the Canadian Arctic Islands / Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Nature, 1990. url p. 135, p. 840.
• Contributions from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory. [New Haven?]Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale University, url p. 54.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 10 1973 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 271, p. 273, p. 274, p. 276, p. 53, p. 77.
• Farlowia: a journal of cryptogamic botany. 4 1950-1955 Cambridge, Mass., 1943-1955. url p. 199.
• Flore de Buitenzorg, Leide, E. J. Brill, 1898-1922. url .
• How to know the mosses; a popular guide to the mosses of the northeastern United States; containing keys to eighty genera and short descriptions of over one hundred and fifty species, with special reference to the distinguis by Elizabeth Marie Dunham, with illustrations by the author. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1916. url p. 217.
• Northern bog lemming survey, 1993: a report to USDA Forest Service / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, 1994. url , .
• Publications in botany / Ottawa: The Museum, 1969- url p. 57, p. 58.
• Report of the State Botanist. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1898-1925. url p. 16, p. 16.
• Reports. OttawaKing's Printer1917 url p. 10.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 286, p. 38, p. 8, p. 98.
• Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2) Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988. url p. 537.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 102, p. 141, p. 183, p. 199, p. 259, p. 287, p. 342, p. 360, p. 393, p. 422, p. 43, p. 500, p. 504, p. 601, p. 629, p. 663, p. 719.
• The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 26, p. 31.
• The bryophytes of Connecticut / by Alexander William Evans and George Elwood Nichols. Hartford: Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1908. url p. 166.
• The bryophytes of Connecticut, Hartford, Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1908. url .
• The bryophytes of Illinois: an annotated and indexed bibliography and checklist / Bill N. McKnight. Urbana, Ill.: State of Illinois, Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources, Natural History Survey Division, [1987] url p. 14.
• The orchids in the Ottawa District: floristics, phytogeography, population studies and historical review / Joyce M. Reddoch and Allan H. Reddoch. 111 1997 Ottawa, Canada: The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, [1997] url p. 183.
• The study of plant communities: an introduction to plant ecology. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1948. url p. 373.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 15 providers.
• MOST: Moss TROPICOS Database. Release date: July 19, 2004
• Moss TROPICOS: the World Checklist of Mosses
• Moss TROPICOS DatabaseJul 1, 2004.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Division Herbarium
• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• European Environment Agency: EUNIS
• Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw: Flora of Slowinski National Park, Poland
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid: MA-Musci
• GBIF-Sweden: Herbarium of Oskarshamn (OHN)
• GBIF-Sweden: Mosses (S)
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Herbarium (AMNH)
• Icelandic Institute of Natural History: Herbarium (ICEL)
• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences: Spring bryophyte flora of Salpausselka (Ulvinen 1955 & Juutinen 2006)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Bryophyte herbarium, Bergen (BG)
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: Bryophyte herbarium, Oslo (O)
• NLBIF: Limnodata
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility: Botany registration database by Danish botanists
• The New York Botanical Garden: American Bryophyte Catalog
• UK National Biodiversity Network: British Bryological Society - Bryophyte data for Great Britain from the British Bryological Society held by BRC
• UK National Biodiversity Network: British Bryological Society - Bryophyte data for Great Britain held by BRC for compilation
• UK National Biodiversity Network: Scottish Borders Biological Records Centre - SWT Scottish Borders Local Wildlife Site Survey data 1996-2000 - species information
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: MEXU/Colección de Briofitas
• University Museums of Norway (MUSIT)

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3872593
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: MOS-35153416
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2670762
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 16188
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CAGID
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 24816

Footnotes

1. Mean = 430.910 meters (1,413.747 feet), Standard Deviation = 736.820 based on 20,168 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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