Cirriphyllum
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Cirriphyllum is a genus of the moss . The individual species are yellowish to greenish in color and form lawns.
Identifying features
Cirriphyllum species only develop creeping trunks, which often develop numerous runners ( stolons ). Trunk and branch leaves are shaped identically and ovoid. They are also flat, with entire margins and only rarely dentate. At the front, the leaves suddenly turn into a short or long point and have a mostly simple, short vein at the base. The leaf cell network is provided with elongated ( prosenchymatic ) cells. The capsule is always inclined, the capsule stem ( seta ) is usually rough and the capsule lid is beaked.
The sudden transition of the leaves into the elongated leaf tip distinguishes Cirriphyllum plants from those of the similar genus Brachythecium .
Occurrence
The Cirriphyllum species are found in the Holarctic and Malaysia . In Europe they are mainly found in forests, but also in nutrient-rich ruderal locations.
Systematics and types (selection)
According to the Stech & Frey system, 8 species worldwide belong to the genus Cirriphyllum , after several species were transferred to other genera.
The following species are represented in the area of Germany, Austria and Switzerland:
Species that used to belong to Cirriphyllum are now assigned as follows:
- Cirriphyllum cirrhosum - new: Brachythecium cirrhosum
- Cirriphyllum germanicum - new: Rhynchostegiella tenuicaulis
- Cirriphyllumreichenbachianum - new: Sciuro-hypnum flotowianum
- Cirriphyllum tommasinii - new: Brachythecium tommasinii
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- Jan-Peter Frahm : Annotated List of Mosses in Germany (= Archive for Bryology. 79, ISSN 0945-3466 ). Universitäts-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 2011, Section III Comments, Point 10, pp. 28–29, ( digitized version (PDF; 220.24 kB) ).
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- Wolfgang Frey, Michael Stech, Eberhard Fischer: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants (= Syllabus of Plant Families. 3). 13th edition. Borntraeger, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 .
- Moss flora in Switzerland
- Checklist of Austria's Mosses ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
