<p><strong>Cytological Studies on mosses from Papua New Guinea 1. Introduction and the family Orthotrichaceae</strong></p>

H. P. Ramsay; H. Streimann; D. H. Vitt

doi:10.11646/bde.11.1.9

Issue: Vol. 11 No. 1: (1995)

Type: Article

Published: 1995-12-31

DOI: 10.11646/bde.11.1.9

Page range: 151–160

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Cytological Studies on mosses from Papua New Guinea 1. Introduction and the family Orthotrichaceae

H. P. Ramsay⁺⁻
H. Streimann⁺⁻
D. H. Vitt⁺⁻

School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney N.S.W. 2109 Australia

Cryptogamic Herbarium, Centre for Plant Biological Diversity Research, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 Australia

Department of Botany, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9 Canada

Bryophyta mosses

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Abstract

Chromosome numbers with information on meiotic behaviour are recorded for the first time for the following taxa in the family Orthotrichaceae from Papua New Guinea - Desmotheca apiculata (Dozy & Molk.) Lindb. ex Card. n=6; Macromitrium incurvifolium (Hook. & Grev.) Schwaegr. n=9, M. longicaule C. Muell. n=6 (5+X/y), M. orthostichum Nees ex Schwaegr. n=7 (6+ X/y), M. salakanum C. Muell. n=9, M. similirete Bartr. n=9. M. streimannii Vitt n=9 (8+m); Schlotheimia emarginato-pilosa Herz. n=9 and S. macgregorii Broth. & Geh. n=11.

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