humpbacked elves
Buxbaumia
Buxbaumia (Bug moss, Bug-on-a-stick, Humpbacked elves, or Elf-cap moss) is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River. The moss is microscopic for most of its existence, and plants are noticeable...
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Buxbaumia Moss
speciesBuxbaumia viridis
Bug-on-a-stick
speciesBuxbaumia aphylla
Piper's Bug-on-a-Stick Moss
speciesBuxbaumia piperi
Minakata's Hump-backed Elves Moss
speciesBuxbaumia minakatae
Buxbaumia novae-zelandiae
speciesBuxbaumia novae-zelandiae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 124847.