Blunt-leaved fair-billed moss
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Blunt-leaved fair- billed moss ( Eurhynchium angustirete ) |
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The stump-leaved fair- billed moss ( Eurhynchium angustirete ) is a pleurocarpes deciduous moss from the family Brachytheciaceae .
features
This type of moss forms loose, green, shiny and often quite extensive lawns up to 5 centimeters high. The strong plants are often branched like trees, individual branches are often extended like a flagella. The stem leaves are heart-shaped and broadly pointed, sparsely protruding, longitudinally folds and sawn around the edges. The leaves are about 1.2 to 1.3 times as long as they are wide and at the tip of the leaf, the leaf edges have an angle of 45 to 85 degrees. Branch leaves are a bit smaller and narrower. All leaves have a simple rib up to about 3/4 of the leaf length, with the end of the rib usually emerging as a thorn on the back of the leaf. The leaf cells are linear and thin-walled in the middle of the leaf, shorter at the base of the leaf, somewhat wider, moderately thick-walled and spotted; the leaf wing cells are rectangular.
The moss does not often bear fruit; the spore ripening can take place all year round. The sporophyte has an upright, red, smooth seta , which carries an inclined to horizontal, curved, cylindrical spore capsule.
Occurrence and distribution
The blunt-leaved fair-billed moss grows in shady, fresh or moist, alkaline to moderately acidic locations, mainly on forest soil, also on rotten wood and on stem bases.
In Central Europe it is common in submontane and montane locations and is one of the most common types of moss there. The total distribution includes Europe and Asia.
Similar closely related species
The stump-leaved Schönschnabelmoos is similar to the closely related pointed-leaved Schönschnabelmoos ( Eurhynchium striatum ), which is mainly distributed from the plain to the lower mountain range. The stump-leaved fair-billed moss differs from that species in that it has shorter and wider, pointed leaves.
literature
- Ruprecht Düll , Barbara Düll-Wunder: Determine mosses easily and reliably. An illustrated excursion guide to the types of Germany and neighboring countries. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-494-01427-2 .
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Wolfgang Frey : Moosflora (= UTB . 1250). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 .
- 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 .
