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Physcomitrella patens
Also called Spreading Earth Moss, Spreading Leaved Earth Moss
Physcomitrella patens, the spreading earth moss, is a small moss that colonises bare, damp mud at the edges of pools and is best known as a laboratory model organism. It is grown in labs and by enthusiasts, not usually as a garden or houseplant, and it needs constant moisture.
Physcomitrella patens is a synonym of Physcomitrium patens, the spreading earthmoss. It is a moss, a bryophyte used as a model organism for studies on plant evolution, development, and physiology.
Physcomitrella patens is an early colonist of exposed mud and earth around the edges of pools of water. P. patens has a disjunct distribution in temperate parts of the world, with the exception of South America. The standard laboratory strain is the "Gransden" isolate, collected by H. Whitehouse from Gransden Wood, in Cambridgeshire in 1962.
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