Claim · model-written summary
Three liverwort endemics and a moss were newly reported as epiphylls.
- Taxon
- Rhododendron maximum
Rhododendron maximumt0 - Interactor
- Lejeunea ruthiiLejeunea ruthiie0other
- Outcome
- newly reported as epiphyllse0
Verbatim
e0“Three North American liverwort endemics, Lejeunea ruthii, Leucolejeunea clypeata, and Radula obconica, and the moss, Platygyrium repens, are newly reported as epiphylls.”
t0“Rhododendron maximum”
Title
Epiphyllous bryophytes in the Appalachian Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee, U.S.A
Allen C. Risk; Channing Richardson; Paul Davison The Bryologist 2011. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-114.2.289
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Ten liverwort taxa and one moss species were found as epiphylls on Rhododendron maximum.
- Observation The Kentucky sites are the northernmost documented bryophyte epiphyll sites in eastern North America.
- Observation Epiphyll colony diameter ranged from under 0.1 mm to 20 mm.
- Observation Epiphylls covered as much as 15% of host leaves.
- Observation No one-year-old leaves supported bryoepiphylls.
- Observation 8.9% of two-year-old leaves supported epiphylls.
- Observation 13.3% of three-year-old leaves supported epiphylls.
- Observation The authors infer that bryoepiphylly frequency and northern limits are underestimated in eastern North America.