Key Identification Features
- Its structural features let it absorb metal ions.
- Campylopus bicolor is a species of moss defined by multiple distinctive traits.
- These hood-like tips are usually short and broad, but may sometimes be very long and narrow, making the hood shape far less distinct.
- Microscopic examination reveals diagnostic features in the leaf cells: the basal cells are notably thickened (incrassate), while the upper cells are roughly rectangular to oval in shape.
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