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 UKEconet > Projects & Identification Guides > Sphagnum > Pt 3 Advanced > Sphagnum fimbriatum

Identification Guide - SPHAGNUM MOSSES
​PART 3 - Advanced Guide: Sphagnum fimbriatum

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Sphagnum  fimbriatum
Sphagnum  fimbriatum
  • Delicate species; smaller than either of the above.
  • Branches thin and rather wiry.
  • Typically a pale yellowish green colour throughout.
  • ​Relatively “hard to the touch” conical bud in the centre of the capitulum. This may appear paler in tone and therefore quite prominent to the eye.
  • Very distinctive stem leaves: broad, overlapping and broken at the tips. If the capitulum is carefully pinched off a “coronet-like” grouping of these leaves can be seen. This feature may be visible to the naked eye but is very obvious through a hand lens.
  • This species is quite often fertile in which case it typically produces several spore capsules on individual stems. 
  • Forms loose patches, mats and sometimes raised "cushions" often in gaps between coarse moorland vegetation.
  • The shoots frequently branch and mat together.  Again very widespread in mesotrophic environments.

​Microscopic characteristics:
  • Broad, truncated stem leaves, heavily eroded with exposed fibrous ends
​<< Sphagnum girgensohnii
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Guide prepared by Paul Ardron, Ian Rotherham & Chris Percy
Supported by the British Ecological Society - Peatlands SIG and Sheffield Hallam University

Unless otherwise stated, all images © Paul Ardron. No images may be copied, stored or reproduced elsewhere without written permission.
All photographs are from UK locations
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