Key Identification Features
- Its distinctive features include feather-like, flattened stems and branches, its yellow-green colour, and the dense covering of paraphyllia on its stems.
- blandowii can be distinguished by its pinnate growth habit, in contrast to the fasciculate growth habit of Sphagnum.
- It sometimes grows under grasses, sedges and shrubs at the edges of these wetland features, or within them in small rivulets.
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