Pylaisia

Pylaisia
	Pylaisa polyantha
Systematics
Subdivision :	Bryophytina
Class :	Bryopsida
Subclass :	Bryidae
Order :	Hypnales
Family :	Pylaisiaceae
Genre :	Pylaisia
Scientific name
	Pylaisia
	Chimp.

Pylaisia is a moss species from the order of Hypnales .

features

The main stem is creeping and irregularly to regularly pinnately branched. The side branches are more upright. Leaves on stems and branches are similar to one another: they have a long, drawn out tip, are flat-edged and have entire margins. The rib is short and double or absent. The lamina cells are prosenchymatic. The leaf wing cells are square.

The seta is smooth and red. The capsule stands upright.

Systematics

The genus is part of the Pylaisiaceae family . It consists of 18 species, two of which occur in Europe, one of them in Germany:

Pylaisia polyantha

supporting documents

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.

[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.