Protosphagnum nervatum

Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Bryophyta
Classis: Sphagnopsida
Ordo: Protosphagnales †
Familia: Protosphagnaceae †
Genus: Protosphagnum †
Species: Protosphagnum nervatum †

Name

Protosphagnum nervatum Nejburg, 1960

References

* Nejburg, M. F. (1956) Discovery of true mosses in Permian Deposits of Southern Priuralia. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 107 (2): 321-324.
* Nejburg, M. F. (1958) Permian true mosses of Angaraland. J. palaeont. Soc. India 3: 22-29.
* Nejburg, M. F. (1960) Leafy mosses from the Permian deposits of Angarida. Trudy geol. Inst. Leningr. 19:1-104.

Protospagnum nervatum is the only known species of order Protosphagnales. In many ways, it resembles the living moss genus Sphagnum, though its leaf cells are not as strongly dimorphic as in Sphagnum.[1]

References

1. ^ Oostendorp, Cora. The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic. (Bryophytum Bibliotheca, Band 34, 1987). ISBN 3-443-62006-X.