Artigo Revisado por pares

Indopottia irieandoana sp. nov. (Pottiaceae) from Doi Inthanon, northern Thailand

2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1179/1743282010y.0000000021

ISSN

1743-2820

Autores

Hiroyuki Akiyama, Bernard Goffinet,

Tópico(s)

Plant Diversity and Evolution

Resumo

Indopottia irieandoana H.Akiyama sp. nov. is reported on the basis of two specimens from Doi Inthanon, northern Thailand, as a second species of a genus recently described from southern India. The lack of a peristome precludes unambiguous familial placement based on morphology, but phylogenetic analyses of sequences from a chloroplast and a mitochondrial locus place the new taxon, with strong support, in the Pottiaceae. Its epiphytic habitat on a tree trunk and a branch near the crown of an emergent tree and a strangler tree, respectively, along with morphological features such as spatulate leaves, a single dorsal stereid in the leaf costa, smooth laminal cells, long rostrate opercula, and eperistomate, upright capsules point to a close relationship to Indopottia zanderi. The morphology is compared with that of related genera. A key to similar genera and species is provided.

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