The authors identified a little fuzzy sprig in the small-plants section as Huperzia beiteliana.
This is club moss. The plant snippet does resemble club moss, but there are about 400 species of club mosses and they grow all over the world, so how can the authors presume to narrow it down to H. beiteliana?
In the explanation for the next plant ID (another form of moss), the authors have incorrectly transliterated VMS chos cTharal into opchy Tcasal. I don't understand why, but presumably they wanted to turn it into a valid Spanish word, and the explanation that it translates to māncuonoca doesn't work if one uses the existing VMS glyphs:
They identify this as Huperzia dichotoma which is a HANGING club moss. If someone collected it in the wild, they would always see it hanging from a tree branch, not standing up. In the U.S., it is found only in Florida (it is red-listed as Critically Imperiled), and is rare to uncommon in parts of Brazil and Mexico. Since it is fussy about its habitat (certain kinds of tree bark), it has probably never been common.
This is club moss. The plant snippet does resemble club moss, but there are about 400 species of club mosses and they grow all over the world, so how can the authors presume to narrow it down to H. beiteliana?
In the explanation for the next plant ID (another form of moss), the authors have incorrectly transliterated VMS chos cTharal into opchy Tcasal. I don't understand why, but presumably they wanted to turn it into a valid Spanish word, and the explanation that it translates to māncuonoca doesn't work if one uses the existing VMS glyphs:
They identify this as Huperzia dichotoma which is a HANGING club moss. If someone collected it in the wild, they would always see it hanging from a tree branch, not standing up. In the U.S., it is found only in Florida (it is red-listed as Critically Imperiled), and is rare to uncommon in parts of Brazil and Mexico. Since it is fussy about its habitat (certain kinds of tree bark), it has probably never been common.