Lophoziaceae

Lophoziaceae
	Lophozia ventricosa
Systematics
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Class :	Jungermanniopsida
Subclass :	Jungermanniidae
Order :	Lophocial
Family :	Lophoziaceae
Scientific name
	Lophoziaceae
	Cavers

Lophoziaceae are a moss family from the class of the Jungermanniopsida .

features

The Lophoziaceae belong to the group of leafed liverworts . They are land-dwelling, small to medium-sized mosses, the plants lying down to upright and often brownish to reddish. They have undivided, usually two- to four-lobed, rarely undivided flank leaves. Sub-leaves are large to small or absent. Leaf cells have 2 to 50 oil bodies . Perianthia are round at least at the base. There is no formation of marsupia. Spore capsules are short ovoid, rarely spherical.

distribution

The distribution of the Lophoziaceae extends predominantly in the cool and cold regions of the northern hemisphere. There are only a few genera in the southern hemisphere.

Systematics

The Lophoziaceae family comprises three subfamilies with 16 genera and around 200 species

Subfamily Chandonanthoideae
- Chandonanthus , 1 kind
- Plicanthus , 5 species
- Tetralophozia , 4 species
Subfamily Lophozioideae
- Anastrepta , 1 item
- Anastrophyllum , 35 to 40 species
- Andrewsianthus , around 25 species
- Barbilophozia , 11 species
- Gerhildiella , 1 item
- Gymnocolea , 3 species
- Gymnocoleopsis , 3 species
- Leiocolea , about 12 species
- Lophozia , 70 to 80 species
  - Lophozia ventricosa
- Pseudocephaloziella , 1 species
- Sphenolobopsis , 1 species
- Tritomaria , 7 to 8 species
Subfamily Gottschelioideae
- Gottschelia , 4 species

literature

↑ 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. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 64 .

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[1] 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. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 64 .