Bryocrumia
Genus of mosses
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Bryocrumia vivicolor is a rheophytic species of moss belonging to the family Hypnaceae, and is the sole representative of the genus Bryocrumia.[1]
| Bryocrumia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Bryidae |
| Order: | Hypnales |
| Family: | Hypnaceae |
| Genus: | Bryocrumia L.E.Anderson |
| Species: | B. vivicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Bryocrumia vivicolor (Brotherus & Dixon) W.R.Buck | |
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The genus has been found in moist, shady sites at moderate elevation in the United States, China, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, and Zaire.[2] Sporophytes were first observed in 2016 on collections in Yunnan.[3]
The genus was described by Lewis Edward Anderson in 1980.[1] It was named for bryologist Howard Alvin Crum.[2]