Dicranaceae
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Common fork-tooth moss ( Dicranum scoparium ) |
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The Dicranaceae are a family of mosses (Bryopsida).
features
They are mostly perennial mosses that grow in lawns. The stems are unbranched or sometimes forked.
The leaves are typically drawn out into a long, awl-shaped point. In many species they are crescent-shaped and inclined to one side of the stem. The leaf cells are oblong and rectangular at the base of the leaf and round to square in the upper part.
The capsules usually stand on long stems. The 16 peristome teeth can also be simple, but are usually deeply split, which is why the mosses of the family are sometimes called "fork-tooth mosses" in German.
The family Ditrichaceae is very similar in characteristics, but usually contains smaller mosses. The systematic structure of these two families is still unclear.
Distribution and genera
In Europe only the three genera Cnestrum , Dicranum and Paraleucobryum are represented.
Worldwide the family consists of 24 genera with a total of around 410 species in two subfamilies:
Subfamily Dicnemonoideae
Subfamily Dicranoideae
- Braunfelsia
- Brotherobryum
- Camptodontium
- Chorisodontium
- Cnestrum
- Cryptodicranum
- Dicranoloma
- Dicranum
- Eucamptodontopsis
- Holomitrium
- Hygrodicranum
- Leucoloma
- Macrodictyum
- Muscoherzogia
- Paraleucobryum
- Parisia
- Platyneuron
- Pocsiella
- Pseudo-chorisodontium
- Schliephackea
- Sclerodontium
Individual proof
- ↑ 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 , pp. 168-170.
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
