Platygyrium

Platygyrium
	Platygyrium repens
Systematics
Subdivision :	Bryophytina
Class :	Bryopsida
Subclass :	Bryidae
Order :	Hypnales
Family :	Pylaisiadelphaceae
Genre :	Platygyrium
Scientific name
	Platygyrium
	Break , chimp. & W. Gümbel

Platygyrium is a genus of moss from the order of the Hypnales .

features

The trunks are prostrate and more or less regularly pinnately branched. The stem and branch leaves are similar: straight or slightly curved. They are oval to oval-lanceolate and have a sharp tip. The leaf margin is turned back and has entire margins. The leaf veins are short and double, but can also be absent. The lamina cells are prosenchymatic. The leaf wing cells are square to rectangular.

The seta is smooth and red, the capsule is upright.

The genus often reproduces asexually through broken branches that are axillary.

Distribution and locations

The genus occurs in Europe, Asia, North and Central America.

Systematics

The genus is part of the Pylaisiadelphaceae family . It comprises 5 species, including one in Europe:

Platygyrium repens

literature

Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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. 238.

Web links

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[Syllabus-1] 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. 238.