Trichocoleales

Trichocoleales
	Trichocolea tomentella
Systematics
without rank:	Streptophyta
Empire :	Plants (Plantae)
Department :	Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Class :	Jungermanniopsida
Subclass :	Jungermanniidae
Order :	Trichocoleales
Scientific name
	Trichocoleales
	W. Frey & Stech

The Trichocoleales are an order of leafy liverworts .

features

The moss plants have flank leaves that are asymmetrically divided, (two) three to four times, thread-like lobes. Sub-leaves are present and are similar to the flank leaves.

Systematics

The Trichocoleales include according to Frey et al. two families:

Family Blepharostomataceae , 1 genus with 3 species, occurrence in the northern hemisphere
Family Trichocoleaceae , 4 genera with about 35 species

European occurrence

In Europe, each of the two families is represented by one species each:

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 68 f .

Web links

Commons : Blepharostoma trichophyllum - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Trichocolea tomentella - collection of images, videos and audio files

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[1] Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Stech: Bryophytes and seedless Vascular Plants . In: Wolfgang Frey (Ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler's Syllabus of Plant Families . 13th edition. tape 3 . Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8 , pp. 68 f .