Pleurocia
| Pleurocia | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pleurocia |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name of the subclass | ||||||||||||
| Pleuroziidae | ||||||||||||
| W. Frey & Stech | ||||||||||||
| Scientific name of the order | ||||||||||||
| Pleurocial | ||||||||||||
| Schljakov | ||||||||||||
| Scientific name of the family | ||||||||||||
| Pleuroziaceae | ||||||||||||
| Garbage. Frib. | ||||||||||||
| Scientific name of the genus | ||||||||||||
| Pleurocia | ||||||||||||
| Dumort. |
The Pleurozia are a moss genus which alone forms the subclass Pleuroziidae of the Jungermanniopsida class . It contains 11 species, all but one of which occur mainly as epiphytes in humid, tropical mountain forests.
features
Apart from the characteristics of the family, the formation of the lower lobes of the flank leaves is very characteristic of the mosses of this genus: the lower lobes are hollowed out in the shape of a sack or a shell. The opening of this cavity is arched inwards like a trap or funnel and provided with a flap. There are also two slits in the lower lobe. This makes the lower lobe of the Pleurozia plants one of the most complicated leaf structures in mosses.
The upper lobes of the flank leaves are broadly oval to round in shape. They are rounded or shallow at the front. The leaf margin can be serrated completely to slightly irregular.
The Pleurozia mosses are relatively strong, wine-red mosses.
Types (selection)
- Pleurozia acinosa
- Pleurozia articulata
- Pleurozia caledonica
- Pleurozia conchifolia
- Pleurozia curiosa
- Pleurozia gigantea
- Pleurozia heterophylla
- Pleurozia johannis-winkleri
- Pleurocia paradoxa
- Pleurozia purpurea
- Pleurozia subinflata
swell
- Wolfgang Frey, Jan-Peter Frahm, Eberhard Fischer, Wolfram Lobin: Small cryptogam flora Volume IV: The moss and fern plants of Europe. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Jena, New York 1995, ISBN 3-437-30756-8
- Barbara M. Thiers: A Monograph of Pleurozia (Hepaticae; Pleuroziaceae) , The Bryologist, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 517-554
