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

Identification Guide  - SPHAGNUM MOSSES
Part 3 - Advanced Guide: Sphagnum teres

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Sphagnum teres
Sphagnum teres
  • Medium sized species
  • Sometimes distinctly yellowish-brown in appearance but often combined with brighter green tones
  • One of the few species which display a prominent conical stem bud (S. fimbriatum and S. squarrosum are the only other Sphagnum species found in England and Wales which share this feature)
  • Typically looks and feels relatively stiff
  • Tongue-shaped stem leaves typically eroded at the tips and fimbriate
  • Often forms raised patches and mats amongst supporting vegetation 
  • Typically found in mesotrophic locations
  • Often associated with Juncus effusus  stands
 
Microscopic characteristics:
Not clearly distinguished microscopically from the related S. squarrosum but may be separated from some other similar species by checking how the photosynthetic cells of the branch leaves are exposed:
  • In this species the photosynthetic cells are exposed and therefore prominent when the leaf is viewed from the convex ‘underside’ but not from ‘above’.  
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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.
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