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Fissidens adianthoides

Fissidens adianthoides, the maidenhair pocketmoss, is a moss in the family Fissidentaceae and class Bryopsida. The Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island used maidenhair moss to bandage wounds. It was so named by Anglo-Saxons because of its resemblance to pubic hair.

[ "Ecology", "Botany", "Carex flacca", "Campylium stellatum", "Scorpidium scorpioides" ]
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