Amblystegium serpens
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Amblystegium serpens , sometimes also called creeping stump-lid moss in German, is a common and widespread, but rather inconspicuous, species of moss in Central Europe.
description
The irregular but densely branched plants form delicate lawns. The shoots, which are only about 1 mm wide including the leaves, are up to 4 cm long and can adhere to the ground with numerous rhizoids .
The lanceolate leaves are drawn out into a long point. The leaf margin is entire, more rarely serrated. The cells of the leaf blade are approximately 3 to 5 times as long as they are wide. The leaf vein extends into the middle of the leaf or a little above it, but not into the leaf tip.
As with all species of the genus, the capsule is cylindrical, curved, and has a narrowest point well below the capsule opening.
distribution
The species grows in different types of damp or shady places, from flatlands to over the tree line, in urban and near-natural areas, on wood, rock or earth.
It is almost cosmopolitan (northern hemisphere, South Africa , South America , New Zealand ). It is widespread and common in Central Europe .
Sources and further information
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8001-2463-7 .
- Wolfgang Frey, Jan-Peter Frahm, Eberhard Fischer, Wolfram Lobin : The moss and fern plants of Europe (= small cryptogam flora. Vol. 4). Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1995, ISBN 3-437-30756-8 .
- Hans Martin Jahns : Ferns, mosses, lichens. Central, Northern and Western Europe. (= BLV regulations book. 28). 2nd, revised edition. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich et al. 1982, ISBN 3-405-11893-X .
