Dotted root star moss
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The dotted root star moss ( Rhizomnium punctatum ) is a common, diocesan deciduous moss .
Occurrence
It colonizes moist, relatively nutrient-rich, shady locations on rotten wood, rock, forest floor and is also found secondarily in lime spring corridors.
Identifying features
The plants reach heights of up to 5 cm and grow in loose, dark green to yellowish green lawns. The stem is often provided with a dense, brown rhizoid felt. At the tip it is leafed in rosettes with moist, protruding, dryly curved, wavy leaves, which are slightly edged at the tip and are about 6 mm wide and 10 mm long. At the edge there is a mostly red-brown colored leaf border, which is 2 to 4 rows of cells wide. The red-brown leaf vein ends in the leaf tip. The capsule has 22 to 42 lamellae, is furrowed with age and produces yellow spores.
literature
- 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 .
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
