Tag: Microscopic

36/150: Bug-on-a-stick: neither a stick bug nor a bug

Mar 29, 2017

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by

Emma Eberl

in #Biodiversity150

Plantae: Bryophyta: Bryopsida: Buxbaumiidae: Buxbaumiaceae: Buxbaumia aphylla (Hedw. 1801) This unusual plant is actually a species of moss! Buxbaumia aphylla, known as bug-on-a-stick, is found across the upper Northern Hemisphere in temperate and subarctic regions.