Skin fern-like Neusternmoos
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Skin fern-like new star moss ( Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides ) |
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The Hautfarnähnliche Neusternmoos often Hautfarnähnliches Blue Star Moss ( Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides ) is a moss -Art from the family Mniaceae .
features
The species grows in low, up to 3 cm high, somewhat loose lawns with bluish-green plants. The mostly dark colored stems have two lines of leaves and have rounded to elliptical, single-layered lined leaves. Sporophytes are not known from Germany.
Location requirements
The moss colonizes damp earth over limestone and slate. The habitats are in a rain-protected but humid position in caves, rock crevices, rubble heaps and under overhangs.
Spread and endangerment
It is an arctic-alpine lime moss with main distribution in the northern latitudes of North America , Europe and Asia . In Germany it occurs exclusively in the high altitudes of the Alps . The centers of concentration are the Allgäu Alps , the Wetterstein Mountains and the Berchtesgaden Alps . The occurrences in the Alps are mostly small, geographically isolated and are considered cold-age relics. There is no evidence of any threat to the species in its alpine habitats, but some occurrences can be affected by intensive mountain tourism.
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 , p. 357.
- Bruno P. Kremer, Hermann Muhle: lichens, mosses, ferns . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-6652-5 , p. 182.
