Porella

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Plantae • Divisio: Marchantiophyta • Classis: Jungermanniopsida • Ordo: Porellales • Familia: Porellaceae • Genus: Porella L. (1753)

Wikispecies has an entry on: Porella.

Gametophyte edit

Vegetative edit

Extensive colony of P. platyphylla, on rock face
Habit of P. platyphylla, on side of tree
Appearance of P. platyphylla branches, dry
Appearance of P. platyphylla branches, wet
View of branch from below, magnified, showing underleaves
View of branch from below, magnified, showing underleaves and lobules
Leaf cells, microscopic view

Reproductive edit

Branch bearing archegoniophore, microscopic view
Archegoniophore, longitudinal section
Archegonium, longitudinal section
Antheridia, longitudinal section

Sprophyte edit

Dry plant with ruptured sporophytes, magnified
Preserved plant with sporophytes
Sporophyte with elongated seta, magnified
Sporophyte inside perichaetium, longitudinal section
Spores and elater cells, microscopic view

Genus Porella L. (1753) edit

Type species Porella pinnata L. (1753)

Species edit

Historical illustrations edit

"Lejeunea platyphylla Corda" (=Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.), illustration from Jakob Sturm, Deutschlands Flora