Splachnaceae
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The Splachnaceae are a family of mosses .
features
These mosses colonize humus, dung or decaying animal corpses. They form dense or loose, light green or yellow-green, often rhizoid-felted lawns below . The upright stems are simple or branched. They have a central strand in cross section. The leaves are often soft and slack and broadly lanceolate to spatulate, the margins entire to sawn and hemmed or unhemmed. The simple leaf vein ends in front of or in the leaf tip. The leaf cells are rectangular to hexagonal or rhombic, thin-walled and smooth. The seta is short or long, straight or curved, the capsule upright and symmetrical, the urn ovoid to short cylindrical, the capsule neck clearly separated and often strikingly colored when the spores are ripe. The peristome of 8, 16 or 32 teeth is single or double. The capsule lid is conical, the hood (kalyptra) hood-shaped.
Systematics
According to Frey, Fischer and Stech, the family is divided into 2 subfamilies, 6 genera and 72 species:
- Subfamily Splachnoideae
- Genus Aplodon , 1 species Aplodon wormskjoldii
- Genus Splachnum , 11 species
- Genus Tetraplodon , 9 species
- Genus Voitia , 2 species
- Subfamily Taylorioideae
- Genus Moseniella , 2 species in Brazil
- Genus Tayloria , 47 species
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- 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 .
