Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Pyrrhobryum
Rhizogoniaceae Broth.
Pyrrhobryum Mitt. , legitimate, scientific
Mitten, W. (1868), A list of the Musci collected by the Rev. Thomas Powell in the Samoa or Navigator's Islands. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 10: 174 [tax. nov.]
Gilmore, S.R. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2006), Rhizogoniaceae. Flora of Australia 51: 359 [secondary reference]
  • Comment: from the Greek pyrros (red) and bryon (a moss), presumably in reference to the reddish colour ofo the capsule mouth.

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