Aneura
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Aneura is a genus of thallose, i.e. leafless liverworts .
features
The thalli of the mosses of this genus are fat, shiny, stiff, thick and easily fragile, 6 to 20 cell layers thick in the middle, 2 to 10 millimeters wide and not or only slightly and irregularly branched. In all epidermal cells there are small oil bodies, there can be 6 to 60 per cell. Most of the species are diocesan . Male plants are smaller than female. Asexual reproduction is absent. The species of this genus grow on more or less permanently moist subsoil such as damp or swampy soils, on rotten wood, humus and rocks.
species
The genus includes around 15 species worldwide. Species occurring in Central Europe are:
- Shiny sans-nerved moss ( Aneura pinguis )
- Aneura maxima
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th edition, UTB Verlag, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5
- Martin Nebel, Georg Philippi (ed.): The mosses of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 3: Special Part (Bryophyta: Sphagnopsida, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotophyta). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3278-8 .
- Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. Vol. 3, Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 .
Web links
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