Dicranum

Dicranum scoparium

Dicranum ( fork tooth Moose ) is a genus of mosses of the family Dicranaceae.

Features

Moose this genus are most vigorous plants in often sweeping lawns or larger pads. The most upright, simple or forked stems, up about 10 centimeter tall and are covered with a more or less dense, whitish to reddish brown Rhizoidenfilz. The leaves are usually lanceolate, often falcate einseitswendig, rarely straight, above, often tipped rinnig - hollow and sharp or blunt, have a solid sheet vane and a simple up to the blade tip reaching or exiting rib. The leaf cells are oblong - rectangular to linear, in the upper part of leaf often shorter to roundish - square. The long seta carries an upright to inclined and straight or curved spore capsule with long geschnäbeltem cover and 16 forked to the middle Peristomzähnen.

Systematics and species

Some species have been transferred to the genus Orthodicranum (breakage & Schimp. ) Loeske in the past, for example, the types Dicranum flagellar ( Orthodicranum flagellar ) or Dicranum montanum ( Orthodicranum montanum ). According to the classification by Holly & Frey of this cleavage is not followed here.

Information about the global number of species are strongly differing depending on sources: by Holly & Frey there are 92 species, according to other sources 140 to 150 species.

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland occurring types are:

  • Dicranum acutifolium
  • Dicranum bonjeanii
  • Dicranum brevifolium
  • Dicranum dispersum
  • Dicranum elongatum
  • Dicranum flagellar
  • Dicranum flexicaule
  • Dicranum fulvum
  • Dicranum fuscescens
  • Dicranum majus
  • Dicranum montanum
  • Dicranum muehlenbeckii
  • Dicranum polysetum
  • Dicranum scoparium
  • Dicranum spadiceum
  • Dicranum spurium
  • Dicranum tauricum
  • Dicranum transsylvanicum
  • Dicranum undulatum
  • Dicranum viride

Swell

  • Wolfgang Frey, Eberhard Fischer, Michael Holly: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants. In: Wolfgang Frey ( ed.): Syllabus of Plant Families - A. Engler 's Syllabus of Plant Families. 13th edition. Vol 3, Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8.
  • Jan- Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moss flora. 4th edition. UTB Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1250-5.
  • Fog, Philippi: The Moose Baden -Württemberg Volume 1 1st Edition. Ulmer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8001-3527-2.
  • Checklist of the mosses of Austria
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