<strong>When morphology and molecules tell us different stories, part 2: <em>Pinnatella homaliadelphoides</em> (Neckeraceae), a new moss species from China and India</strong>

Johannes Enroth; Sanna Olsson; Si He; James R. Shevock; Dietmar Quandt

doi:10.11646/bde.31.1.12

Issue: Vol. 31 No. 1: (2010)

Type: Article

Published: 2010-12-31

DOI: 10.11646/bde.31.1.12

Page range: 67–75

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**When morphology and molecules tell us different stories, part 2: Pinnatella homaliadelphoides (Neckeraceae), a new moss species from China and India**

Johannes Enroth⁺⁻
Sanna Olsson⁺⁻
Si He⁺⁻
James R. Shevock⁺⁻
Dietmar Quandt⁺⁻

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 7, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 27, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA

Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 94118, USA

Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 170, 53115 Bonn, Germany

pleurocarpous mosses molecular phylogeny nomenclature taxonomy convergent evolution

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Abstract

Pinnatella homaliadelphoides Enroth, S. Olsson, S. He, Shevock & D. Quandt (Neckeraceae, Bryophyta) is illustrated and described from China and India. Morphologically, it differs strongly from all known species of Pinnatella, but shares many features characteristic of Homaliadelphus Dixon & P. de la Varde (Miyabeaceae). The generic placement is therefore evaluated by molecular methods. Sequence data from the plastid rps4-trnT-trnL-trnF cluster as well as the rpl16 group II intron and the nuclear ITS1 & 2 place Pinnatella homaliadelphoides sister to P. foreauana Thér. & P. de la Varde, both sharing the same general geographical distribution range.

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