Smooth-handled short rifle moss
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![]() Smooth-handled short rifle moss ( Brachythecium salebrosum ) |
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Brachythecium salebrosum | ||||||||||||
( Web. & Mohr ) Chimp. |
The Glattstielige short sleeve moss ( Brachythecium salebrosum ) is a holarctic common moss , which is mainly in the temperate zones occurs.
description
The plants are yellowish to whitish-green in color and form shiny, interwoven lawns. The trunks are mostly creeping, lying close to the ground. They are relatively densely covered with rhizoid clusters and branched irregularly into simple branches that are often conspicuously upright. The densely arranged stem and branch leaves are loosely attached, shaped like a lanceolate and gradually taper off into a fine, non-twisted tip. They often have deep longitudinal folds beginning at the leaf base. The leaves are about 2.4 to 3 mm long. The leaf margin is often fine in the Astblättern especially in the upper half cut . The lamina cells are 70 to 100 µm long and 6 to 10 µm wide. The few, indistinctly developed leaf wing cells are thick-walled. The seta is colored red, smooth and up to 2 cm long. The cylindrically shaped capsule is slightly to strongly curved and has a red-brown peristome . Spore ripening occurs all year round, but generally occurs more frequently in the winter months.
distribution
It prefers partially shaded, base and nutrient-rich, humus, humid locations in forests, on embankments and on fallow land. It prefers to colonize deciduous tree bases, rotten wood, forest soil, but is also not uncommon on limestone or on open ground.
literature
- 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 .
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
Web links
- Spreading Brachythecium salebrosum in Germany. Project Moose Germany
- Brachythecium salebrosum at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis