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Codriophorus is a genus of deciduous mosses from the subfamily Racomitrioideae within the family Grimmiaceae .
features
The small or medium-sized to large plants are usually stiff and rigid, rarely flexible, and form yellow, green, olive-green, gray-green or brown to blackish lawns. The creeping to ascending trunks are forked, slightly tufted or branchy. The leaves are tongue-shaped to lanceolate, the edges usually curved back on one or both sides, the tip of the leaf rounded to pointed. The simple rib extends to the middle of the leaf or ends well before the tip of the leaf. Usually a hyaline glass tip is absent; if present, it is smooth or slightly serrated.
The lamina cells have nodular (barbed wire-like) thickened walls and are elongated to linear, in the upper leaf area they can also be isodiametric to short rectangular. Above the cell walls there are usually large, flat papillae; they also cover the edge areas of the cells so that only the center of the cell remains free.
The seta is upright and smooth, the spore capsule ovate to long-cylindrical, straight, brown, red-brown or yellow-brown, the peristome teeth are split up to the middle or to the base, the kalyptra is papilous.
distribution
It occurs in Europe, in the arctic and temperate zones of Asia, in Africa, North and South America and on the Atlantic and Pacific islands.
Systematics
The genus Codriophorus was (as well as two other genera, Bucklandiella and Niphotrichum ) by Ochyra et al. 2003 split off from the genus Racomitrium (in the former broader sense). This division is currently only partially implemented in various floras; In the list of species below, the former species names that are currently still often used are therefore also given in brackets.
Worldwide there are 15 species belonging to the genus Codriophorus . Species found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are:
- Codriophorus acicularis ( Racomitrium aciculare )
- Codriophorus aquaticus ( Racomitrium aquaticum )
- Codriophorus fascicularis ( Racomitrium fasciculare )
swell
- 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 .
- Codriophorus in www.efloras.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey: Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 , p. 159.