Marsupella emarginata
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Marsupella emarginata is a species of moss of the order Jungermanniales .
features
The plants are one to five centimeters high and 0.5 to 2 millimeters wide. They form green, red-brown or blackish lawns. The trunks form numerous stolons . The leaves are boat-shaped, spread out, they are rounded, square to circular. They are incised on a fifth to a quarter of the leaf length. In the middle of the leaf, the cells are 13 × 27 micrometers in size and have thickened ends. The female bracts are larger than the leaves. A perianth is available. The spores are 12 micrometers in diameter.
Distribution and locations
The species occurs circumbo-real and disjunct also tropical-montane in tropical Africa, Mexico and Colombia. In Germany it is the most common type of the genus and occurs widespread in the Alps and the low mountain ranges, but only sporadically in the lowlands. It grows on wet, lime-free rocks and stones in and on streams, only rarely on earth.
supporting documents
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
