Pleurozia

The Pleurozia are a moss genus which alone forms the subclass of the class Pleuroziidae Jungermanniopsida. It contains 11 species which occur mainly down to a as epiphytes in humid, tropical mountain forests.

Features

Apart from the features of the family, the education of the lower lobe of the edge leaves in mosses of this genus is very characteristic: the lower lobes are hollowed - sac or shell- shaped. The opening of this cavity is traps or funnel-shaped curved inward and provided with a flap. Moreover, still in the lower lobe two slots. Thus, the lower lobe of the Pleurozia plants is one of the most complicated sheet training in mosses.

The upper lobe of the edge leaves are broad oval to round in shape. Front they are rounded or emarginate shallow. The leaf margin may be entire to slightly dentate irregular.

The Pleurozia - mosses is relatively strong, wine-red mosses.

Types (selection)

  • Pleurozia acinosa
  • Pleurozia articulata
  • Pleurozia caledonica
  • Pleurozia conchifolia
  • Pleurozia curiosa
  • Pleurozia gigantea
  • Pleurozia heterophylla
  • Pleurozia locust - winkleri
  • Pleurozia paradoxa
  • Pleurozia purpurea
  • Pleurozia subinflata

Swell

  • Wolfgang Frey, Jan- Peter Frahm, Eberhard Fischer, Wolfram Lobin: Small cryptogamic flora Volume IV: The Moss and Ferns of Europe. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Jena, New York 1995, ISBN 3-437-30756-8
  • Barbara M. Thiers: A Monograph of Pleurozia ( Hepaticae; Pleuroziaceae ), The Bryologist, Vol 96, No. 4 ( Winter, 1993), pp. 517-554
  • Jungermanniopsida (class)
  • Jungermanniopsida
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