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Kindbergia is a genus of deciduous moss in the Brachytheciaceae family . The species are common in the Holarctic , Africa and South America.
description
The plants are medium to strong and green to brownish-green. The prostrate or ascending to upright stems have longitudinal ribs and a central cord in cross section. As a rule, they are very loosely leafed and branched fairly regularly. The straight branches have dense or moderately dense catkin-shaped leaves.
The stem leaves are upright protruding to curved back, drawn out from a broad triangular base into a lanceolate tip and usually long and wide down the stem. They have sawn leaf edges; the leaf vein extends into the upper half of the leaf and partially ends as an emerging thorn on the underside of the leaf. Branch leaves are smaller and narrower, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate and pointed; the leaf margins are strongly serrated.
The species are diocesan . The papillary seta carries the horizontally inclined capsule with the long beaked capsule lid.
Systematics and types (selection)
The species of the genus Kindbergia were often assigned to the genus Eurhynchium . Due to recent research results, the genus Kindbergia (as well as Oxyrrhynchium or Eurhynchiastrum ) was separated from Eurhynchium .
According to Stech & Frey, Kindbergia includes 8 species worldwide. The only representative of the genus in Europe is:
Kindbergia praelonga (synonym Eurhynchium praelongum )
Web links
- BRACHYTHECIACEAE (...) A FAMILY OF SIBLING GENERA, by Ignatov & Huttunen (PDF file; 481 kB)
- Kindbergia at www.mobot.org
- Checklist of the mosses of Europe and Macaronesia (PDF file; 506 kB)
- JP Frahm: Annotated List of Mosses in Germany (PDF file; 220 kB)
- Moss flora in Switzerland
- Checklist of Austria's Mosses ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
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. 231.