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Pleurocarp

Any pleurocarpic moss.

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Moss 76% connected

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, an…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pleurocarpous 74% connected

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pleurocarpous 74% connected

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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