Re: [Killietalk] java moss .... not a moss

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

R. Brice wrote:
> I don't think java moss is a moss ... considering its name implies it is a vascular plant. Vesicularia dubyana
>   
Richard,

The problem with that is that /Vesicularia dubyana/ (Singapore Moss) 
really is a true moss, as is Java Moss (Taxiphyllum barbieri). [We have 
been calling it by the wrong Latin name for so long, it will be a long 
while before some of us old fogeys will be willing to make the change.] 
Neither of them can bloom, and the sporophytes that the Java Moss should 
produce are so rare that one of the world's leading bryologists has only 
seen them once, from a specimen from Vietnam. If you have Java Moss 
producing the sporophytes, get it to a good university bryologist as 
fast as possible.

Wright

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