Assertion: moss | /r/HasAspect | differing resistance
Facets:
value: to desiccation
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Mosses have differing resistance to desiccation: aquatic mosses like Fontinalis squamosa, which grows in streams and rivers attached to rocks and tree roots, will frequently be unable to recover after a week of air-drying, whilst Grimmia pulvinata has been known to withstand sixty weeks in a desiccator at 20 degrees C