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The database is hosted by Kiel University
and is established by Magda Wieckowska-
Lüth, Wiebke Kirleis and Kay Schmütz,
Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology.
© Wieckowska-Lüth/Kirleis/Schmütz 2020
Type: T-14
Category: Bryophyta
Sub-category: Amblystegiaceae
Taxonomical identification: Calliergon cf. sarmentosum
First publication: Kuhry, P. (1988) A palaeobotanical and palynological study of Holocene peat from the El Bosque mire. Located in a volcanic area of the Cordillera central of Colombia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 55, 19–72
Other publication/s: No information
Description: Leaves ovate, slightly concave, faintly plicate, unicostate, the costa ending above mid-leaf. Leaf cells smooth, linear. Distinct group of alar cells.
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: C. sarmentosum is the only nerved Calliergon species recorded from Colombia (G. van Reenen, pers. comm., 1985).
Palaeoenvironmental indication: No information