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Bryophyte flora of Asia
The bryophyte flora of Asia is the continent's moss, liverwort, and hornwort vegetation; China alone holds over 3,000 species, covering 70% of the world's bryophyte families.
Bryophyte flora of Australia
The bryophyte flora of Australia comprises the country's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, holding about 12% of global hornwort and liverwort diversity, richest along the wetter east and south-east.
Bryophyte flora of Canada
The bryophyte flora of Canada is the documented mosses, liverworts, and hornworts growing naturally in Canada, about 1,006 moss species, with British Columbia the richest province at 760.
Bryophyte flora of Central America
The bryophyte flora of Central America spans Guatemala to Panama and Cocos Island, with 968 moss species, 846 liverworts, and 19 hornworts in an area three-fourths the size of Texas.
Bryophyte flora of continental Europe
The bryophyte flora of continental Europe is the set of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts native to Europe, numbering about 1,892 species, of which 22.5% are threatened.
Bryophyte flora of Macaronesia
The bryophyte flora of Macaronesia is the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts native to the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde, with 729 recorded species.
Bryophyte flora of Mexico
The Bryophyte flora of Mexico is the documented assemblage of mosses, liverwort, and hornwort species. It totals about 1,600 species, with Veracruz being the richest state.
Bryophyte flora of New Zealand
The bryophyte flora of New Zealand is the country's moss, liverwort, and hornwort flora, totaling 1,235 wild taxa in 2025, of which 417 are endemic.
Bryophyte flora of North Africa and the Middle East
The bryophyte flora of North Africa and the Middle East is the combined mosses, liverworts, and hornworts documented from Morocco and the Sahara to Iran and Turkey.
Bryophyte flora of South America
The bryophyte flora of South America comprises the continent's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. The tropical Andes support about 2,500 species, roughly 16% of the world's mosses, and Brazil holds 1,524.
Bryophyte flora of Sub-Saharan Africa
The bryophyte flora of Sub-Saharan Africa is the documented assemblage of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts south of the Sahara, with 2,746 moss taxa and 1,118 liverwort and hornwort taxa recorded.
Bryophyte flora of the Caribbean
The bryophyte flora of the Caribbean consists of the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts of the West Indian islands, from 30 species on tiny Mona Island to 413 on Martinique.
Bryophyte flora of the Mediterranean region
The bryophyte flora of the Mediterranean region is the community of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts around the Mediterranean basin, where wet winters and summer droughts favor drought-tolerant, short-lived species.
Bryophyte flora of the United States
The bryophyte flora of the United States comprises the country's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, with centers of endemism in the southern Appalachians and along the Pacific coast.
Bryophyte flora of Western Australia
Bryophyte flora of Western Australia: the state's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First collected in the Swan River Colony by Drummond and Preiss; only 147 south-west moss species, 29 in the Kimberley, Polytrichopsida absent.
Bryophyte floras of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands
The bryophyte floras of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands are documented moss, liverwort, and hornwort inventories of Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and islands such as Réunion and the Seychelles.
Bryophyte sporophyte
The bryophyte sporophyte is the spore-producing generation of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, an unbranched structure attached to the gametophyte, typically built of a foot, a seta, and a spore capsule.
Bryophyte translocation and habitat restoration
Bryophyte translocation and habitat restoration covers practical conservation measures for mosses and liverworts: site management, translocation and reintroduction, ex-situ conservation, and habitat restoration, including peatland techniques.
Bryophyte-rich bog, moor and heath communities
Bryophyte-rich bog, moor and heath communities are plant communities in which mosses like Sphagnum dominate acidic, nutrient-poor peats, defined in Britain's National Vegetation Classification by species composition.
Bryophytes in ecosystem function and soil
Bryophytes in ecosystem function and soil: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts as the second-largest photoautotroph group, driving carbon sequestration, nitrogen cycling, water retention, biocrust soil carbon, and erosion control.
Bryophytes in human culture and use
Bryophytes in human culture and use covers the material, ceremonial, horticultural, and symbolic roles of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, including Sphagnum wound dressings used in World War I.
Bryophytes of the Kerguelen Islands
Bryophytes of the Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen): mosses and liverworts of a subantarctic archipelago, about 125 moss and 28 liverwort species, first collected by Hooker in 1840, with roughly 20 endemic moss taxa in the Kerguelen Biogeographical Province.
Bryum
Bryum Hedw. (1801), type B. argenteum, is a large, polyphyletic moss genus in Bryaceae with rhombic-hexagonal leaf cells and perfect double peristomes; species have been split into Ptychostomum, Gemmabryum, Rosulabryum, and Imbribryum.
Bucatini
Bucatini (perciatelli) is a thick hollow Italian pasta strand of semolina and water from Lazio and Abruzzo, 2.7-3 mm across, the classic shape for bucatini all'amatriciana and other rich Roman sauces.
Buckwheat
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), a gluten-free Polygonaceae pseudocereal from China; seeds used for soba and kasha, plant used as cover crop; ~2 million tons produced 2024, led by China, Russia, Ukraine.
Buddha's hand
Buddha's hand, also called fingered citron or bushukan, is a fragrant citron variety whose fruit splits into finger-like segments, grown for its form and intense lemon-like fragrance.
Buddleja
Buddleja (buddleia, butterfly bush) is a genus of about 114 accepted species of shrubs in Scrophulariaceae, native to tropical and subtropical America, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia; Buddleja davidii is a popular but invasive garden plant.
Buddleja davidii
Buddleja davidii, commonly called butterfly bush or summer lilac, is a fragrant flowering shrub native to China, widely grown for attracting butterflies though invasive in several temperate regions.
Bulb
Bulb: a compressed underground stem with fleshy leaf scales, basal plate, and tunic; horticulturally also corms, tubers, tuberous roots, and rhizomes. ABA and temperature govern dormancy; tulips drove the Dutch bulb trade.
Bulbophyllum
Bulbophyllum (Thouars 1822) is the second largest orchid and flowering-plant genus, over 2,100 pantropical epiphytic species centered in tropical Asia, with 97 sections, many non-monophyletic, and CITES Appendix II coverage.