Pellia

Pellia
	Pellia epiphylla
Systematics
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Class :	Pelliopsida
Order :	Pelliales
Family :	Pelliaceae
Genre :	Pellia
Scientific name of the order
	Pelliales
	He-Nygrén , Juslén , Ahonen , Glenny & Piippo
Scientific name of the family
	Pelliaceae
	H.Klinggr.
Scientific name of the genus
	Pellia
	Raddi

Pellia is a genus of thallose, i.e. leafless liverworts . It is named after the Florentine lawyer Leopoldo Pelli Fabbroni, a friend of the describer Giuseppe Raddi . Pellia is the only genus in the Pelliaceae family , which in turn is the only family in the Pelliales order .

features

The thalli of the mosses of this genus are fleshy, irregularly forked and not lobed or slightly lobed at the edges. They have an indistinct, multi-layered midrib. The underside of the midrib is flat and bulging and covered with numerous light brown rhizoids. Towards the edges, the thalli are thin, single-celled and more or less transparent. The thallus cells are thin-walled and contain few or numerous oil bodies .

The species are diocesan or monocy . Antheridia are sunk in small hollows on the upper side of the thallus along the midrib. Archegonia are also located on the top of the thallus, they are surrounded by a scale or egg-shaped shell. The fleshy kalyptra is enclosed in the shell or clearly towers above it. The long seta has a spherical spore capsule that opens with four flaps. The elater carriers are attached to the base of the capsule as a conspicuous brush-like tuft. The large, multicellular spores are ellipsoidal to spherical and smooth to slightly papillary.

species

The small genus Pellia comprises only 5 to 6 species worldwide, of which the following 3 occur in Europe:

literature

Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th edition, UTB Verlag, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5
Martin Nebel, Georg Philippi (ed.): The mosses of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 3: Special Part (Bryophyta: Sphagnopsida, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotophyta). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3278-8 .
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 .

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 42 .

Web links

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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. 42 .