From an AP story which was translated from English to Portuguese and back again. Twice.
Rare coverings of moss 130 years it celibacy
LONDON (AP) – For more of the one than, the moss of the rare of Nowell found in old walls of the limestone in England northwest was 130 years not known for frutific and the plant was signed above as the expeditions of a species for the post in the danger.
But the scientists had said that they had found the first time small the brown spores very cigar-given to the form in a patch of moss in a wall in the assembly of Penyghent in dales undulating of Yorkshire – since 1866 that moss is known to have reproduced.
“Of age I overjoyed absolutely… because I knew that history the plant and me knew of that one the last person to see this age a botanical celebrity in 1860s," Fred Rumsey, a investigator of biodiversity of the plant in the museum of history natural of London that the fêz to find, said tuesday.
The scientists of the university of Bradford and the natural museum of history are now studying the molecular composition and genetic of the plant to find ways to protect it of an additional decline. They are also investigating the mites that had damaged the plants that eat the female agencies of the sex.
“We can have that one to make some that matchmaking – 130 years are a very long sojourn to go without sex,” said Rumsey.
The last person to see the fruit of moss is thought to be a friend of John Nowell, botanical of Victorian that had discovered the plant in 1866 and for who it was nominated.
The patches of the moss of Nowell had continued to grow in traditional walls of the limestone of Yorkshire, but in its declined propagation when the walls if had spoiled. The plant does not produce no flower, but the shots for are of its spores brownish after the reproduction between the plants masculine and females.
Investigators that said Rumsey it had found moss is “still abundant in small areas in low heights, but some of the colonies were all the one sex and it did not have no possibility in way that reproduced. In some of the places it had both the sexos, but they were a measurer (yard) or two separate and this cannot seem distant, but for one sperm very small that is a long way to swim.”
“They need a continuous stream the humidity. Consequently the plants cannot successfully colonize and thus this to reproduce motionless sexually.”
Happened new Frutific probably when lode masculine of moss and the together female in a wall in the assembly of Penyghent after laudering or to mold being for the low point of after that, Rumsey said.