{"title":"Recircumscription of Lopholejeunea sikkimensis (Lejeuneaceae: Marchantiophyta) and its varieties in India","authors":"Priyanka, S. Singh, Arun K. Pandey","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"The taxonomy of Lopholejeunea sikkimensis var. tenuicostata, L. sikkimensis var. kumaunii and L. sikkimensis var. dentata is evaluated. Based on study of numerous collections of L. sikkimensis, followed by comparison with the protologues of the varieties, we conclude that var. tenuicostata and var. kumaunii are not distinct from the typical variety. Hence both the varieties are placed here under synonymy of L. sikkimensis. Lopholejeunea sikkimensis var. dentata, however, is accepted as a distinct taxon. A detailed revised taxonomic description of L. sikkimensis is provided along with line drawing illustration and photographic plate for future identification and reference.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryan J. Deregnier, Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi, A. Gaskett
{"title":"Passage of spores of the dung moss Tayloria callophylla (Splachnaceae) through an avian digestive tract—a novel mode of dispersal?","authors":"Ryan J. Deregnier, Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi, A. Gaskett","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"The dispersal of reproductive material plays a key role in the ecology of plants. Dung mosses (Splachnaceae), have evolved to utilise insects to disperse spores to habitat sites consisting of dung or dead animals—a marked departure from the wind based spore dispersal seen in other mosses. However, adapting to insect dispersal likely precludes long distance airborne dispersal, and limits dispersal events to the movements of the spore bearing insect. However, there are several disjunct populations of these mosses, incompatible with insect dispersal, raising questions over the manner of their origin. Hypotheses put forward include the dispersal of the mosses to these sites by birds. Here, the possibility that insectivorous birds could internally transport spores is explored by feeding insects bearing spores to captive myna birds. We tested if the spores of the New Zealand dung moss, Tayloria callophylla, can survive gut passage. Ultimately 9 of 10 dung samples produced viable moss colonies after a period of 30 days, demonstrating the survival of the spores through an avian digestive tract. Our results provide evidence for a unique model of dispersal in dung mosses, where a spore bearing insect is eaten by a bird that eats insects transports the spores in its gut over a much greater distance than otherwise likely with the insect alone.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139143777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New records and range extensions for liverworts (Marchantiophyta) in the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion","authors":"D. Meagher, T. Pócs, A. Cairns","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Three species of liverworts are reported as new to Australia, all from the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion: Colura corynophora, Drepanolejeunea serricalyx, and D. tricornua. Significant range extensions within the bioregion are reported for another two species. Cololejeunea kapingaensis, previously reported as ramicolous, is here reported as an epiphyll.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139141998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New insights into the genus Stoneobryum (Bryophyta: Orthotrichaceae) based on recent collections of the two known species","authors":"F. Lara, I. Draper, R. Garilleti","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"The morphological traits of the two known species of the genus Stoneobryum are reexamined based on newly collected materials. Observations on the Australian species, S. bunyaense, are derived from a recent collection made at the type locality, where it has been rediscovered. Those of S. mirum are based on recent field collections from numerous locations in eastern South Africa. Comprehensive descriptions of both species and illustrations of their key morphological characters are provided. The new data complement and correct previously available descriptions, especially the original one for the type species of the genus, S. bunyaense. Stoneobryum arises as a highly differentiated genus, well characterized by sporophytic and gametophytic characters. Its two species are very similar, but nevertheless certainly distinct; an identification key is provided.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139144937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue commemorating Dr David Meagher 1956–2023 (Cover)","authors":"D. Cargill, Michael Stech, M. Tabua, M. Konrat","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Cover</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Game, P. J. D. Lange, M. Konrat, M. Tabua, David R. Toren, Gerald Mccormack, John J. Engel, T. Pócs, Gary Merrill, A. SASS-GYARMATI
{"title":"Additional Bryophyte Taxa from the Cook Islands","authors":"John Game, P. J. D. Lange, M. Konrat, M. Tabua, David R. Toren, Gerald Mccormack, John J. Engel, T. Pócs, Gary Merrill, A. SASS-GYARMATI","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"It is evident that the bryophyte flora of the Cook Islands remains poorly documented. Here, ten moss species and five liverwort species of Lepidoziaceae are newly reported for the Cook Islands. These records include Calomnion denticulatum, previously known only from Samoa, Ectropothecium viridifolium, previously known only from Hawai’i, and Tricholepidozia quadriseta, previously known only from Australia. Also, thirteen new island records of mosses are reported for Outer Islands of the group and additional information is provided for some previously published reports.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"32 S112","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139147064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new Riccardia (Aneuraceae, Marchantiophyta) from Myanmar","authors":"Frank Müller","doi":"10.11646/bde.46.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.46.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Riccardia, R. meagheri, is described from mountainous areas of northern Myanmar. The new species differs from other species by 1) inner cells of main axis and branches in thallus cross-section flattened, much wider than high, irregularly shaped and with curved cell walls, 2) dorsal epidermis cells mamillose protruding forwards, ventral epidermal cells enlarged, but externally flat, not mamillose, 3) a winged, translucent, single-layered margin on both the main axis and branches, 4) the identical structure of the main axis and branches in thallus cross-section.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139142718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Si He, J. Shevock, Nikisha Patel, Olivia Lemieux, B. Goffinet
{"title":"Rediscovery of the Chinese endemic Florschuetziella scaberrima (Bryophyta: Orthotrichaceae) a century after its description leads to its transfer to Leratia","authors":"Si He, J. Shevock, Nikisha Patel, Olivia Lemieux, B. Goffinet","doi":"10.11646/bde.45.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.45.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"Florschuetziella scaberrima (Broth.) Vitt, previously known only from the type material collected in 1915 from Yunnan, China, was rediscovered nearly a century later in 2005. The species is morphologically indistinguishable from the Mexican endemic F. steerei Vitt, but given the paucity of material the two are provisionally retained as distinct, allopatric species. Both species exhibit traits reminiscent of Leratia neocaledonica Broth. & Paris, a species endemic to New Caledonia. A shared ancestry with the other species currently accommodated in Leratia Broth. & Paris, i.e., L. exigua (Sull.) Goffinet and L. obtusifolia (Hook.) Goffinet, and the phylogenetically nested position of Florschuetziella Vitt within Leratia supports the merger of the two generic names, and hence the transfer of species of Florschuetziella, prompting the proposed new combinations Leratia steerei (Vitt) Goffinet, S.He & Shevock and Leratia scaberrima (Broth.) Goffinet, S.He & Shevock.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44421559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. S. Allen, G. Dauphin, J. C. Villarreal, Caleb CASWELL-LEVY, Erin Cox, B. P., J. L., E. Hernández-Rodríguez, Karla Y. MAGAÑA-MARCIAL, A. Mežaka, Juan Diego RAMÍREZ-ROMÁN, Lilisbeth Rodríguez, Arianti Rojas Carvajal, Camila ROMERO-MORENO, A. Tomitani, Katherine ZEBALLOS-GRIJALVA
{"title":"Bryophytes of mangroves of Bocas del Toro, Panama","authors":"N. S. Allen, G. Dauphin, J. C. Villarreal, Caleb CASWELL-LEVY, Erin Cox, B. P., J. L., E. Hernández-Rodríguez, Karla Y. MAGAÑA-MARCIAL, A. Mežaka, Juan Diego RAMÍREZ-ROMÁN, Lilisbeth Rodríguez, Arianti Rojas Carvajal, Camila ROMERO-MORENO, A. Tomitani, Katherine ZEBALLOS-GRIJALVA","doi":"10.11646/bde.45.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.45.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"This is the first survey of bryophyte diversity in the mangroves of Panama. The study was done in the mangroves of Bocas del Toro Province, Panama, in September 2016 and, July, May and August 2017. Bryophytes were collected from prop or stilt roots of mangroves, the mid-lower part of the trunks and the lower branches. In areas inundated at high tide, additional samples were collected on the cortex of palms, its rootlets, other angiosperm trees and from decomposing logs. Twenty-six species of liverworts and seven of mosses were identified. The most diverse and predominant liverwort family was the Lejeuneaceae with twenty-two species and two varieties and, among the mosses, the Calymperaceae with three species. Species affinities with other tropical mangroves were analyzed and liverworts were found to be the dominant element. Among the liverworts collected, two are new reports for Panama: Ceratolejeunea confusa and Frullanoides mexicana. Additional surveys of the cryptogamic vegetation of Panamanian mangroves are urgently needed due to the accelerated deforestation caused by anthropic activities and the potential loss of important biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42364424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Peñaloza-Bojacá, A. Sierra, H. Becher, K. Renzaglia, J. Villarreal A.
{"title":"HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE AUSTRAL HORNWORT GENUS PHAEOMEGACEROS (DENDROCEROTACEAE, ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA)","authors":"G. Peñaloza-Bojacá, A. Sierra, H. Becher, K. Renzaglia, J. Villarreal A.","doi":"10.11646/bde.45.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.45.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The transoceanic disjunct distributions between Australasia and Austral America have been observed in many plant groups. The processes behind these disjunct distributions remain a source of debate due to differences in species vagility, biogeographical history, and complex geological and climatic changes. We address the phylogenetic relationships and biogeographical history of the austral hornwort genus Phaeomegaceros based on eight molecular markers from the three genomes (nuclear: phytochrome, mitochondrial: nad5, and chloroplast: rbcL, trnL intron, trnL-trnF spacer, rps4 gene, rps4-trnS spacer, and matK gene). With ten taxa based on morphological and molecular data, the three phylogenetic analyses supported the genus Phaeomegaceros as monophyletic. Phaeomegaceros is composed of two major clades corresponding to the New Zealand species, which presents a conspicuous trilete mark with one depression in the middle of the spore’s proximal face, and the Austral American species, which lack this middle depression. Dating and biogeographical analyses indicate that the Phaeomegaceros ancestral area was New Zealand and Antarctica in the Late Cretaceous (53.51 Ma, HPD 95% = 31.64–72.63). While Austral American species diverged during the Eocene. We speculate that climatic fluctuations in the Antarctic continent during the middle to late-Miocene led to the isolation of Phaeomegaceros taxa with both processes (dispersal events and vicariance) acting on the independent evolution of the disjunct clades. Furthermore, recent diversification of Phaeomegaceros taxa in Austral America and range expansion to northern Andes and oceanic islands, are explained by dispersal events and subsequent cladogenesis coinciding with the uplift of the Andes and the formation of volcanic oceanic islands (Juan Fernandez and Tristan da Cunha).","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44935833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}