Blunt-leaved bog sickle moss
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Blunt-leaved bog sickle moss ( Sarmentypnum sarmentosum ) |
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The broadleaf Moor sickle Moss ( Sarmentypnum sarmentosum ) is a moss - kind from the family Calliergonaceae . Often used with the synonyms Warnstorfia sarmentosa (Wahlenb.) Hedenäs or Calliergon sarmentosum (Wahlenb.) Kindb. called.
features
They are medium-sized, usually reddish, more rarely black-red, black-green, green, yellowish or piebald, shiny plants with irregularly branched stems. They form loose to moderately dense lawns. The more or less protruding, mostly straight leaves are about 2 to 2.5 millimeters long, oval to broadly tongue-shaped, the tip of the leaf is blunt with a small pointed tip. The leaf margins are entire. The simple leaf vein extends into the upper third of the leaf length. The oval, rectangular wing cells form a well-defined group compared to the elongated cells in the middle of the leaf. The moss is diocesan .
Location claims and distribution
The species grows mainly in sub-alpine altitudes in acidic low and intermediate bogs, in spring meadows and over wet silicate rock. In the Central Alps it is scattered to frequent, otherwise very rare to absent.
The sub-arctic-alpine and sub-Antarctic distributed species occurs in Europe, Asia, North and South America, in East Africa, in Australia, New Zealand and in the Antarctic.
swell
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 , p. 449.
- Warnstorfia sarmentosa in Bryophyte Flora of North America .
