Barbilophozia lycopodioides
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Barbilophozia lycopodioides is a liverwort species from the Lophoziaceae family and belongs to the group of leafed liverworts. German-language names are Großes Bart-Spitzmoos or Bärlappartiges Bartspitzkelch -Lebermoos . A synonym of this species is Lophozia lycopodioides (Wallr.) Cogn.
features
Barbilophozia lycopodioides grows in yellow-green, spongy lawns, often mixed with other types of moss. The plants are up to 8 inches long and 3 to 5 millimeters wide. They are often forked. On their underside they have a dense, white felt of rhizoids. The densely placed flank leaves, which are attached at an angle to the stem, are wider than they are long and at the front divided into four broad, roughly equal-sized lobes, which terminate in a thorn-like, one- to two-celled spike tip. The leaf base is covered with a few cilia. Sub-leaves are usually deep in two columns and partly hidden in the rhizoid felt.
The leaf cells of the flank leaves are round, thin-walled and about 20 to 25 µm in size. The cell corners are greatly thickened. There are 4 to 8 oil bodies per leaf cell .
The moss species is diocesan . The large perianth is elongated-ovoid, 5 to 6 millimeters long, folded at the top and serrated at the mouth. Brood bodies are formed in red-brown piles at the end of the stem.
ecology
The moss species grows in light-rich to moderately shaded, lime-poor and acidic places on grassy soils, heaths, in coniferous forests and on rocks.
distribution
Barbilophozia lycopodioides is a mountain moss. In Central Europe it is common in the Alps and the higher low mountain ranges, otherwise only occurs very locally and is absent in the lowlands. The European occurrences range from the arctic zone south to the Pyrenees and Bulgaria. Other occurrences are in the Caucasus, Siberia, Japan, North America and Greenland.
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th edition, UTB Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5
- Nebel, Philippi: Die Moose Baden-Württemberg Volume 3 . 1st edition, Ulmer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3278-8
