Triple-lobed whip moss
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The three-lobed whip moss ( Bazzania trilobata ) is a liverwort species from the Lepidoziaceae family and belongs to the group of leafed liverworts.
features
The large and strong plants of this species usually grow in extensive, dark green lawns or cushions.The individual shoots are forked, grow ascending to upright, are flattened to convex, 3 to 6 millimeters wide and usually 3 to 5 centimeters, more rarely up to 20 centimeters long. Flank leaves are elongated egg-shaped with three short, wide teeth at the tip of the leaf, overshot and densely tiled. Lower leaves are much smaller than the flank leaves, 4-toothed, usually a little wider than long and as wide or a little wider than the stem. The whip-shaped, up to 5 cm long flagella on the underside of the trunk are characteristic. The lamina cells are about 30 to 40 µm in size in the middle of the leaf, have strong to nodular corner thickenings and 6 to 10 oil bodies per cell.
The species is dioecious. Sporogons are very rare. The perianth is up to 6 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide, the seta 5 to 7 centimeters long.
variety
A small form of this species is Bazzania trilobata var. Depauperata (Müll. Frib.) Grolle. This has rungs 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide, more rectangular leaves and somewhat smaller lamina cells with strongly thickened cell corners.
Location claims and distribution
The three-lobed whip moss grows on damp and shady locations (the var. Depauperata in drier and shady) locations, especially on lime-free forest soil and on lime-free rocks, and also on rotten wood. It is widespread in the mountains, but rarely on the plains. In the Alps it rises to heights of 1,600 meters. It is common in the northern hemisphere.
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th edition, UTB Verlag, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5
- Ruprecht Düll, Barbara Düll-Wunder: Determine mosses easily and reliably . Quelle & Meyer Verlag Wiebelsheim, ISBN 978-3-494-01427-2
- Nebel, Philippi: Die Moose Baden-Württemberg Volume 3 . 1st edition, Ulmer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3278-8
