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Plagiomnium , rarely creeping star mosses , is a genus of deciduous mosses from the family Mniaceae with worldwide distribution.
description
The plants of this genus are green, never reddish. Fertile shoots are upright and mostly leafy at the tip, sterile shoots often grow arching overhanging or prostrate and are often apparently two-line leafed. The leaf margins are lined with 2- to 5-cell rows. Spore capsules are ovate to oblong and horizontal to pendulous.
Systematics
The genus Plagiomnium includes 25 species worldwide.
There are 9 species in Europe, including:
- Plagiomnium affine
- Plagiomnium cuspidatum
- Plagiomnium elatum
- Plagiomnium ellipticum
- Plagiomnium medium
- Plagiomnium rostratum
- Plagiomnium undulatum
The habitually similar and closely related species Plagiomnium affine , Plagiomnium elatum , Plagiomnium ellipticum and Plagiomnium medium also belong to the species group Plagiomnium affine agg. summarized.
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literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- Martin Nebel, Georg Philippi (ed.): The mosses of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Special part, (Bryophytina II, Schistostegales to Hypnobryales). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3530-2 .
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. 197.
