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

["wusong" <wusong at drunkenbastards_com>]

Java moss has been (recently) positively ID'd by at least one authority as a Taxiphyllum sp.  Vesicularia has apparently not really made it into the hobby.  It is a true moss, BTW  More here:  www.aquamoss.net

Dave S.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>
Reply-To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
Date:  Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:36:22 -0800

>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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