How to Identify Sphagnaceae

Key Identification Features

• This species has small, distinctive head-like capitula with visible protruding stem buds, and capitula range in colour from bright green to pale yellowish-green.
• The upper portion of each stem leaf has a distinctive fringe-like edge, which is the origin of the specific epithet 'fimbriatum'.
• 2 mm in length, and are arranged irregularly around branches rather than in distinct rows.
• Chemical analysis has detected 13 distinct phytochemicals in S.

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