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Dicranoweisia moss

Dicranoweisia crispula

Also called Mountain Pincushion

Family: Hymenolomataceae (Hymenolomat family)

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Dicranoweisia crispula, the mountain pincushion, is a species of mosses that lives at both poles. It grows in the south pole on the South Shetland Islands and on the Antarctic Peninsula, and in the north pole on the Svalbard archipelago

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