Scapania carinthiaca

Scapania carinthiaca
Systematics
Class : Jungermanniopsida Subclass : Jungermanniidae Order : Lophocial Family : Scapaniaceae Genre : Scapania Type : Scapania carinthiaca
Scientific name
Scapania carinthiaca
JB Jack ex Lindb.

Scapania carinthiaca is a liverwort species of the order Lophoziales .

features

The plants grow up to an inch long and are yellow-green. The leaves are divided up to half into two lobes. These are entire and blunt and have attached tips. You are hardly keeled. The lamina cells have thickened corners, the cell walls on the leaf margin are thicker and hem-like. The brood bodies are unicellular and brown.

Distribution and locations

The species has a subarctic-alpine distribution and occurs in the Alps, Sweden, Siberia and North America. It is very rare in general. In Germany it is limited to the area around Garmisch-Partenkirchen . It grows on rotten wood.

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Web links

• Moose Germany - Distribution of Scapania carinthiaca JBJack ex Lindb.

literature

• Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey , J. Döring: Moosflora . 4th, revised and expanded edition (UTB for Science, Volume 1250). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-2772-5 (Ulmer) & ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 (UTB).