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The Hookeria ( wing leaf mosses ) are a genus of deciduous mosses from the family Hookeriaceae .
description
The species of the genus form prostrate, often extensive, soft, shiny lawns. The plants are not very branched and have flattened leaves. The stem cross-section has a central strand. The leaves are ovate to elliptical and blunt or pointed, the leaf margins flat and entire. A vein is missing. The very large leaf cells are hexagonal to rhombic.
The gender distribution is diocesan or autocratic . The elongated seta is smooth and thick, the capsule oval to ellipsoidal and horizontal to almost pendulous. The lid is beaked, the kalyptra hat-shaped and short-lobed at the base.
species
According to Frey, Fischer & Stech, there are ten species with distribution in the tropical and (mainly northern) temperate climates.
Only one species is represented in Europe: Shiny wing-leaf moss ( Hookeria lucens ).
literature
- Nebel, Philippi: The Mosses of Baden-Württemberg Volume 2 . 1st edition, Ulmer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3530-2 , p. 238
- Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. Vol. 3, Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , p. 213
