Splachnum Hedw.
(collar-mosses)

Interactions where Splachnum is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season
spore spore is spread by adult Foreign Muscomorpha hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles Diptera Mosses and Liverworts, Porley, R. & Hodgetts, N., 2005
 /Plantae/Bryophyta/Bryopsida/Splachnales/Splachnaceae/Splachnum/Splachnumcollar-mossesspore Animal / vectorForeign /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Muscomorpha/Muscomorphahover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottlesadult

Author & YearTitleSource
Porley, R. & Hodgetts, N., 2005Mosses and LiverwortsNew Naturalist, 480pp, HarperCollins

Splachnum (collar-mosses) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusSplachnum (collar-mosses)
FamilySPLACHNACEAE (cruet-, collar-, gland-, and carrion-mosses)
OrderSPLACHNALES (an order of cruet-, collar-, gland-, carrion-, hump-, thread-, and fen-mosses)
ClassBRYOPSIDA (mosses)
PhylumBRYOPHYTA (mosses)
SubkingdomVIRIDIPLANTAE (lower green plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Splachnum (collar-mosses)

Splachnum (collar-mosses) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Splachnum (collar-mosses):

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