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fountain apple moss en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) Philonotis fontana, an epilithic moss in the family Bartramiaceae.
   • The moss was tall, its stems measuring three or four inches, branched and matted together; the leaves were broad and tapering, of a yellow-green colour; and the long fruit-stalks bore large round reddish urns. It was undoubtedly the Fountain Apple moss (Bartramia fontana, fig. 9). 1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses, page 39:
   • Philonotis fontana, the fountain Apple Moss, is common near springs and in wet places, and has stems 1-6 in., with reddish-black radicles ; leaves ovate-acuminate, short ; nerve almost excurrent ; perigonial leaves, obtuse, nerveless […] 1883, The Microscopical News and Northern Microscopist, volume 3:
   • Flora in spring reaches of the Po River is represented by species associated with clear waters and constant discharge, including thick cushions of epilithic mosses such as Schleicher's thread-moss (Bryum schleicheri) and the fountain apple-moss (Philonotis fontana) […] 2009, Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, Rivers of Europe, →ISBN:

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is dýjamosi (Philonotis fontana)