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Hypnum purpurascens Brid.

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Brid.
Brid.
1812
121
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Hypnum purpurascens Brid.
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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.

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purpurascens

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Hypnum purpurascens Brid.
Hypnum purpurascens Brid.

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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.

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1 January 2000
17 July 2015
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