Pleuridium subulatum
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Pleuridium subulatum ( alternating side-headed moss ) is a deciduous moss - species from the Ditrichaceae family .
features
The plants grow in low, yellow-green lawns. The crested leaves are often one-sided and rather suddenly narrowed from the widened, egg-shaped base into the long awl tip. The lamina cells are single-layered on both sides of the rib and are square to rectangular.
The plants are autocratic (antheridia and archegonia on different branches on the same plant). Antheridia are located in small buds in the leaf axils. Ripe capsules are yellow-brown and shiny, the spores are finely papilous and 23 to 28 µm in size. The number of chromosomes is n = 13.
Distribution and location requirements
Occurrence of Pleuridium subulatum there are in Europe, Asia, North America, North Africa and Oceania.
In Central Europe, the moss is widespread from the plains to the lower mountain range. As earth moss, it usually grows in forests on lime-poor, but base-rich, moist, open, sandy, loamy and clay soils. Often, open areas are also populated by moist meadows and pastures.
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 1: General part, special part (Bryophytina I, Andreaeales to Funariales). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3527-2 .
