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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

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

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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