Jungermanniaceae

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The Jungermanniaceae are a diverse family of mosses. They belong to the order Jungermanniales and to the group of leafy liverworts.

Features

The Jungermanniaceae have flat, ganzrandige edge leaves, which are rather round, oval, tongue- shaped, or rarely emarginate at the top or shortly bilobed. The lower leaves are small, are pike -shaped and are often hidden in a Rhizoidenfilz. On sterile stems none the less leaves. The cells contain large oil bodies.

The sheath around the archegonia ( perianth ) is lifted free or a little, they may be absent and only rudimentary.

Common features of the representatives of this family are oblong or round, undershot, ganzrandige leaves.

System

The family includes 12 to 14 genera with about 150 species. The genera occurring in Germany are:

Documents

  • Jan- Peter Frahm: biology of mosses. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg and Berlin, 2001, p 56 ISBN 3-8274-0164- X
  • Jan- Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moss flora. 4th Edition, UTB of Science, Ulm, Stuttgart 2004, p 106 ISBN 3-8252-1250-5
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