Encalyptaceae
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Encalypta vulgaris - sterile plants |
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The Encalyptaceae are a family of acrocarpic mosses , the only one in the order Encalyptales and the subclass Encalyptidae .
description
These are rather small, upright mosses.
Their leaves are elongated tongue-shaped. Your midrib extends to the tip of the leaf. The cells of the leaf blade are rounded. In the lower part of the leaves they are larger, transparent and smooth, towards the upper part of the leaves they are cloudy, dull and papilose , the transition being gradual.
The cylindrical capsules stand upright on a more or less long seta . They are always completely enveloped by a large, bell-shaped, smooth or at most slightly striped kalyptra . The peristome can be designed very differently.
distribution
The Encalyptaceae inhabit cold and temperate zones, especially the northern hemisphere. Some species are also found in the high mountains of the tropics . The species grow on earth or rock. Many species prefer calcareous rock.
Systematics
The family consists of only three genera with around 38 species:
- Bell- hat mosses ( Encalypta ) with approx. 36 species
- Bryobrittonia , 1 species, cold areas of the northern hemisphere (northern North America , northern Eurasia to Spitsbergen )
- Bryobartramia , 1 species, South Africa and Australia
swell
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 3rd, revised edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- Urania plant kingdom. Volume 2: mosses, ferns, naked plants Urania-Verlag, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-332-00495-6 .
- Helmut Gams (Ed.): Small cryptogam flora. Volume 4: Wolfgang Frey, Jan-Peter Frahm, Eberhard Fischer, Wolfram Lobin : The moss and fern plants of Europe. 6th, completely revised edition. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1995, ISBN 3-437-30756-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 149-150.