Red small fork moss
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Red small-forked moss ( Dicranella varia ) |
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The red small-forked moss ( Dicranella varia ) is a lime-loving, widely spread deciduous moss . The German common name is derived from its leaves and setae coloring from.
features
The leaf moss forms up to 2 cm high, greenish to red-brownish colored lawns, which can be more or less dense. The leaves of moist plants are upright when moist. Those of dry plants are slightly bent. The linear, lanceolate, one-sided leaves do not have a separate leaf base. They are evenly narrowed. The leaf margins appear turned back. The tip of the leaf is often weakly serrated and the vein emerges briefly from it. Any leaf wing cells are indistinctly differentiated. The dioecious dioecious species forms a characteristic red colored seta that carries an inclined to curved capsule. Sporogon formation takes place in autumn and spring.
Distribution and location requirements
The moss colonizes light, open-ground, more or less moist and calcareous locations. It can be found on the edges of paths, ditches and pond edges, in clay pits and peat excavations. It is not only widespread in Europe, but also in North Africa, Asia and North and Central America.
literature
- Ruprecht Düll : Excursion pocket book of the mosses. An introduction to moss science with special consideration of the biology and ecology of the most important mosses in Germany and for the magnification of the easily recognizable species in the area. 4th, improved, supplemented edition. IDH - Verlag für Bryologie und Ökologie, Bad Münstereifel 1993, ISBN 3-925425-00-4 .
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
