Funaria hygrometrica is a common type of water moss which grows on moist, shady, and damp soil. It can also be found on moist walls and the crevices of rocks and places where recent fires have taken place.

The plant body is green, soft, and upright. The rhizoid

Rhizoid

Rhizoids are thread-like growths from the base or bottom of a plant, found mainly in lower groups such as algae, fungi, bryophytes and pteridophytes, that function like roots of higher plants ....

s present in this species are multi-cellular

Multicellular organism

Multicellular organisms are organisms that consist of more than one cell, in contrast to single-celled organisms. Most life that can be seen with the the naked eye is multicellular, as are all animals and land plants.-Evolutionary history:Multicellularity has evolved independently dozens of times...

 and branched. They have oblique septa. The main axis of the plant, which is upright, bears a set of spirally arranged, sessile

Sessility (botany)

In botany, sessility is a characteristic of plants whose flowers or leaves are borne directly from the stem or peduncle, and thus lack a petiole or pedicel...

 leaves having a clearly distinguishable midrib.

At the apex of the main plant axis, the antheridia is borne. This is the male part of the shoot. A lateral branch from the main plant axis bears the female shoot archegonia at its meristem

Meristem

A meristem is the tissue in most plants consisting of undifferentiated cells , found in zones of the plant where growth can take place....

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External links

• http://worldofmosses.com/paintings/mosspics03.html
• http://www.eol.org/pages/923991