Hedwigia
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Hedwigia (German Hedwigsmoose ) is a subcosmopolitan genus of deciduous mosses from the Hedwigiaceae family .
features
Hedwigia species are medium-sized mosses with irregularly branched trunks. The leaves are oval and gradually narrowed to the tip, not wrinkled, hollow and densely arranged like roof tiles. A vein is missing. The cells are rectangular to square and papilose in the middle of the leaf, elongated rectangular to linear and smooth or slightly papilous at the base of the leaf. Leaf-wing cells are square to rectangular. The spore capsule is usually sunk into the bracts, a peristome is missing.
Systematics
The genus Hedwigia has 4 species. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland there are 2 types:
- Hedwigia ciliata , the eyelash hedwig moss
- Hedwigia stellata , the star hedwig moss
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- 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 .
- 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. 186.
Web links
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