Flat-Brocade Moss

Platygyrium repens

(Brid.) Schimp. Species

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Botanical name
Platygyrium repens
Also known as
Flat-Brocade Moss
Family
Pylaisiadelphaceae
Genus
Platygyrium
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Flat-Brocade Moss

We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Platygyrium repens but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Anomodon repens Anomodon repens var. major Bruchia repens Cylindrothecium repens Entodon palatinus Entodon repens Entodon repens var. orthoclados Grimmia repens Haplohymenium repens Haptymenium repens Hypnum carinatum Isothecium repens Leptohymenium repens Maschalocarpus repens Neckera repens Neckera sericea Platygyrium palatinum Platygyrium palatinum var. gemmicladum Platygyrium repens f. gemmicladum Platygyrium repens f. gracile Platygyrium repens f. longisetum Platygyrium repens f. minus Platygyrium repens f. orthocladon Platygyrium repens f. robustum Platygyrium repens f. rupestre Platygyrium repens f. sciuroides Platygyrium repens var. ascendens Platygyrium repens var. gemmicladum Platygyrium repens var. minus Platygyrium repens var. orthocladon Platygyrium repens var. rupestre Platygyrium repens var. sciuroides Pterigynandrum repens Pterogonium ascendens Pterogonium repens

Others in Platygyrium

Platygyrium fuscoluteum
Platygyrium australe
Platygyrium russulum
Platygyrium subrussulum

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