Scapania curta
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Scapania curta is a liverwort species of the Jungermanniopsida class .
features
The trunks are up to three centimeters long and form yellow-green to reddish turf. The leaves are divided up to a third of the length. The leaf lobes are of unequal size, towards the tip they are serrated. The upper lobes are egg-shaped, pointed and do not extend over the trunk. The lower lobes are twice as large as the upper lobes, ovate, pointed and three quarters as wide as they are long. In the middle of the leaf, the cells are 12 to 20 × 25 to 30 micrometers in size, their cell corners are significantly thickened. There are one to four rows of evenly thickened cells on the leaf margin. The cuticle is smooth to papillae. Each cell contains two to four oil bodies . There are brood bodies .
Distribution and locations
The species has a circumboreal distribution and occurs from the lowlands to the subalpine altitude range . It grows on lime-free, bare and rather moist soil, rarely on lime-free rocks.
supporting documents
- 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).
