• Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). (wikipedia.org)
  • They have been proposed in a number of fungal genera, including the basidiomycete genus Fomes . (springer.com)
  • A mitosporic Hypocreales fungal genus, various species of which are important parasitic pathogens of plants and a variety of vertebrates. (lookformedical.com)
  • A number of insects, other invertebrates, lichens and mosses depend wholly on ash for habitat. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • Bringing the Food Back Home: Plants, Algae, Lichens and Fungi in the Food Traditions of Indigenous Cascadia - Nancy J. Turner. (botany.org)
  • Yet, their traditional food systems include many, diverse plant species, as well as some marine algae, lichens and fungi. (botany.org)
  • citation needed] Peat moss can be distinguished from other moss species by its unique branch clusters. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main aim of this work was to test new methods for species delimitation in cryptic lineages of polypores, and to define useful characters for species identification. (springer.com)
  • Another mainland European species, manna ash ( F. ornus), has only been found with infected foliage, so it might prove to be tolerant of the fungus. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • However, these species appear able to tolerate infection, showing only mild symptoms on their foliage, having co-evolved with the fungus over thousands of years. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • Virginia has 14 club moss species and four naturally occurring hybrids, now classified in seven genera. (vt.edu)
  • Sporophytes are raised on stalks to facilitate spore dispersal, but unlike other mosses, Sphagnum stalks are produced by the maternal gametophyte. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fern spores grow into a small and easily overlooked gametophyte generation within which eggs are fertilized by swimming sperm cells. (vt.edu)
  • By this definition, algae are not considered plants because they are either unicellular or their reproductive structures are essentially unicellular, and fungi, too, are excluded because they are not photosynthetic. (vt.edu)
  • Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals , and included algae and fungi . (handwiki.org)
  • All current definitions exclude the fungi and some of the algae. (handwiki.org)
  • Eukaryotes in the group STRAMENOPILES, formerly considered FUNGI, whose exact taxonomic level is unsettled. (lookformedical.com)
  • An individual Sphagnum plant consists of a main stem, with tightly arranged clusters of branch fascicles usually consisting of two or three spreading branches and two to four hanging branches. (wikipedia.org)
  • The top of the plant (capitulum) has compact clusters of young branches that give the plant it's characteristic tuft-like appearance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mosses have no vascular system to move water and nutrients around the plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was New Zealand's most distinguished mycologist and plant pathologist and his main scientific contribution was in the study of fungi, how they grow, how they behave, and how they may be controlled. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • Ross was to become primarily a plant pathologist and mycologist but he also did innovative work on fungal physiology. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • His work with Don Burns on phosphate uptake by the fungus Neurospora as a model system was a novel and significant contribution to our understanding of fungal nutrition with implications for both our native plant communities and for pastoral and horticultural cropping and for forestry. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • New immature growth of a plant including stem, leaves, tips of branches, and SEEDLINGS. (lookformedical.com)
  • When a plant has upright spreading branches with an outline shape of a vase. (plantfileonline.net)
  • Whatever these chemicals might be, it is possible they would be the main key to their biology, i.e. for sensing suitable food source, a prospective mate, etc. (gfnc.org.au)
  • They are morphologically similar to fungi but have no close phylogenetic relationship to them. (lookformedical.com)
  • The sporophyte is relatively short-lived, and consists almost entirely of a shiny green, spherical spore capsule that becomes black with spores. (wikipedia.org)
  • He produced new and innovative work as well as combining previous work into new models of fungal behaviour. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • This clade is the main subject of this article (e.g. (handwiki.org)
  • However, older trees can resist it for some time until prolonged exposure, or another pest or pathogen, such as Armillaria (honey fungus), attacking them in their weakened state eventually causes them to succumb. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • The spores germinate to produce minute protonemae, which start as filaments, can become thalloid, and can produce a few rhizoids. (wikipedia.org)
  • When this fungus and other agarics attack the protonema, Sphagnum is induced to produce nonphotosynthetic gemmae that can survive the fungal attack and months later germinate to produce new protonema and leafy gametophytes. (wikipedia.org)
  • This stage dominates the environment where Sphagnum grows, obliterating and burying the protonema and eventually building up into layers of dead moss called peat. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Sphagnum moss grows, it can slowly spread into drier conditions, forming larger mires, both raised bogs and blanket bogs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its effects are most visible in regions where the fungus has been present for the longest time, and where local conditions are most suitable for the fungus. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • An individual Sphagnum plant consists of a main stem, with tightly arranged clusters of branch fascicles usually consisting of two or three spreading branches and two to four hanging branches. (wikipedia.org)
  • The top of the plant (capitulum) has compact clusters of young branches that give the plant it's characteristic tuft-like appearance. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Peat moss can be distinguished from other moss species by its unique branch clusters. (wikipedia.org)
  • producing a furry coating for spore clusters on short aerial hyphae. (blogspot.com)
  • The fungus can produce these clusters of spores, known as conidiospores, in vast numbers, and at higher magnification you can see. (blogspot.com)
  • At high magnification the tip of the hypha can be seen to branch, with clusters of spores at the end of every branch. (blogspot.com)
  • Mosses have no vascular system to move water and nutrients around the plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike other mosses, the long-lived gametophytes do not rely upon rhizoids to assist in water uptake. (wikipedia.org)