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Hypnum purpurascens Brid.

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Brid.
Brid.
Bridel, S.-E. 1812: Muscologia Recentiorum Supplementum seu Species Muscorum. Vol. 2. Ettinger, Gotha.
1812
121
ICN
Hypnum purpurascens Brid.
species
Hypnum purpurascens
The epithet purpurascens aptly means becoming purple. The disused epithet humboldtii honours the great Prussian explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt who, together with Aimé Bonpland, gathered the type of Hedwigia humboldtii at high elevation in the northern Andes.
Type: Réunion. Not seen.

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Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Hypnaceae
Hypnum
purpurascens

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Hypnum purpurascens Brid.
Hypnum purpurascens Brid.
Fife, A.J. (2018)
Rhacocarpus purpurascens (Brid.) Paris

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typification
Type: Réunion. Not seen.
Fife, A.J. 2018: Rhacocarpaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 36. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Etymology
The epithet purpurascens aptly means becoming purple. The disused epithet humboldtii honours the great Prussian explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt who, together with Aimé Bonpland, gathered the type of Hedwigia humboldtii at high elevation in the northern Andes.
Fife, A.J. 2018: Rhacocarpaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 36. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

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1 January 2000
30 October 2023
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