13-04-2009, 07:53 PM
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 | Knight of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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| Re: Where Best To Post Mosses?
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Originally Posted by AlanS  Mosses are plants.
Fungi are not, so they rightly have their own forum, and lichens are rightly a subforum under fungi.
So wherever they go, mosses and liverworts do NOT belong here, and to post them here perpetuates the myth that lichens are "lower plants". Also, anyone actually looking for bryophytes in these forums is hardly likely to look under fungi.
There may well be a case to create a bryophytes subforum under the plants, but please, not here.
There is, it is true, a "plant" aspect to lichens in that they contain algae, but there again, humans keep cattle and that doesn't mean we are cows.
Alan | I totally agree with you Alan. I'll get this sorted with Stu.
John |