Mnium stellare

Mnium stellar

Mnium stellar, the True Star moss is a moss species from the family Mniaceae.

Features

Mnium stellar forms soft, dark green, brownish- rhizoidfilzige inside, about 2 to 6 inches high grass. Young plants are light green. The Stämmchenblätter are moist upright upstanding, smooth, twisted dry and slightly wavy, up to 4 mm long and 2 mm wide, lanceolate acuminate to broadly ovate and sharp. The leaf margin has no rim ( Mnium other European species have a rim ) and is usually serrated blunt in the upper half of the sheet. The under side smooth midrib ends well before the blade tip.

The leaf cells are irregularly hexagonal, 18 to 44 microns long and 15 to 25 μ wide, and have not spotted slightly thickened cell corners.

The moss is dioecious. Sporogone grow individually, contribute to the 1.5 to 3.5 cm long, reddish Seta an elongated and horizontal to inclined spore capsule with hochgewölbtem, dull cover. Spores are finely papillose, yellow-green and about 22 to 33 microns in size. Sporenreife is in May and June, however, the kind rarely bear fruit.

Ecology

Mnium stellar grows in moist shady locations on calcareous or base -rich ground and settled here forest floor, open earthy embankments, übererdetes rocks and crevices.

Dissemination

The moss comes in Europe from the lowlands to the lower alpine zone before and is actually quite common. Other deposits are found in Asia, North Africa and eastern North America.