Entodontaceae
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The Entodontaceae , even interdental Moose called, are a moss - Family of the order Hypnales .
description
These are moderately strong to strong mosses that form green to gold-colored or brownish lawns. They have creeping to ascending stems that are irregularly branched. The leaves of the stems and branches are homogeneous, lanceolate to ovate, rounded to briefly pointed, usually hollow, with mostly flat leaf margins and serrated at the tip. The leaf veins are short and double or may be absent entirely. The cells in the middle and upper parts of the leaf are linear and smooth, those of the leaf wings are square to short rectangular. The sporophytes have a long and smooth seta , an upright, symmetrical, cylindrical capsule with a hood-shaped calyptra , a conical or short-beaked lid and a double peristome .
Systematics
The family comprises 4 genera worldwide with around 135 species:
- Entodon with around 115 species
- Erythrodontium , 15 species with pantropical distribution
- Mesonodon , 2 species, pantropical distribution
- Pylaisiobryum , 1 species in tropical Africa
In Europe only the genus Entodon is represented with the following two species:
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literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- Martin Nebel, Georg Philippi (ed.): The mosses of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Special part, (Bryophytina II, Schistostegales to Hypnobryales). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3530-2 .
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 , p. 243.