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Story: Mosses

Page 3. External links and sources

More links and websites

  • Introduction to Mosses

    This Landcare Research site gives information about mosses in New Zealand and further publications about moss research.

  • Mosses of New Zealand

    A brief introduction to the different types of New Zealand mosses and how to identify them.

  • What is a Moss?

    The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network describes the history and species information about moss and has a key to search all New Zealand mosses.

More suggestions and sources

  • Beever, J., and others. The mosses of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1992.
  • Fife, A. J. ‘Checklist of the mosses of New Zealand.’ Bryologist 98 (1995): 313–337.
  • Malcolm, Bill, and Nancy Malcolm. The forest carpet. Nelson: Craig Potton, 1989.
  • Sainsbury, G .O. K. A handbook of the New Zealand mosses. Wellington: Royal Society of New Zealand, 1955.
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How to cite this page

Maggy Wassilieff, Mosses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/6948/sources (accessed 9 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.