| A new report of unique features in the peristome of Funaria hygrometrica | Armitage, MH. 2009.
CRSQ 45(3):191-199. CELD ID 23823Abstract Sporophyte capsule structures of the moss genus Funaria from California were studied under Scanning Electron Microscopy. The peristome of the sporangium was observed to have a unique "pad" and "web" bellows that appears to be little reported in the literature. This pad and web structure functions, along with the peristome teeth, as a tiny bellows assembly that sucks minute numbers of spores out from the capsule for dispersion during optimum conditions for spore distribution. This bellows system appears to have been skillfully designed. I conclude that such design is a result of divine intelligence.
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