Cinclidotus aquaticus

Cinclidotus aquaticus
	Cinclidotus aquaticus
Systematics
Class :	Bryopsida
Subclass :	Dicranidae
Order :	Pottiales
Family :	Pottiaceae
Genre :	Cinclidotus
Type :	Cinclidotus aquaticus
Scientific name
	Cinclidotus aquaticus
	( Hedw. ) Bruch & Schimp.

Cinclidotus aquaticus is a growing in flowing water moss - kind from the family pottiaceae . German names are Sichelblättriges lattice tooth moss or Bach lattice tooth moss .

features

Cinclidotus aquaticus forms prostrate or tufted, dark to black-green lawns that flood in the water. The plants are up to 25 centimeters, rarely 40 centimeters long and have short side branches. The rigid leaves are usually curved to one side, sickle-shaped, drawn out from the widened leaf base in a linear-lanceolate manner and up to 5 millimeters long. Their strong vein is very broad at the base of the leaf, here takes up about a third or half of the leaf width, and extends to the leaf tip. The leaf border is multilayered, but less bulky than in the other species of the genus. The round, square, smooth leaf cells are 9 to 11 µm in size. There are also rectangular cells at the base of the leaf.

The moss species is diocesan . Sporogons are rarely formed, they are located on short side shoots. The seta is short, 2 to 3 millimeters long, the capsules are raised slightly above the perichaetial leaves, the peristome is incomplete.

ecology

Cinclidotus aquaticus grows in light-rich to weakly shady locations in clear and cool, lime-rich waters, mostly on rock in rapidly flowing water or in places that only dry out for a short time.

distribution

The moss is widespread in lower layers up to about 600 meters, it rarely rises higher than in Bavaria up to 1095 meters or in Switzerland up to 1150 meters. In Europe it occurs mainly from southern Europe to the northern foothills of the Alps and the Jura, rarely in Thuringia, Westphalia and Belgium. There are other occurrences in the Middle East and North Africa.

literature

Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
Martin Nebel, Georg Philippi (ed.): The mosses of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1: General part, special part (Bryophytina I, Andreaeales to Funariales). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3527-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ruprecht Düll , Barbara Düll-Wunder: Determine mosses simply and reliably. An illustrated excursion guide to the types of Germany and neighboring countries. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-494-01427-2 , p. 295.

Web links

Commons : Cinclidotus aquaticus - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Cinclidotus aquaticus in Moose Germany

[1] Ruprecht Düll , Barbara Düll-Wunder: Determine mosses simply and reliably. An illustrated excursion guide to the types of Germany and neighboring countries. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-494-01427-2 , p. 295.