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Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-23
Page range: 178–182
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A new species of Neckera (Neckeraceae, Bryophyta) from northern Vietnam

Department of Biosciences and Botanical Museum, P.O. Box 7, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Einsteinweg 2, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Taxonomy Pleurocarpous mosses New species Tropics

Abstract

Neckera praetermissa Enroth & Touw spec. nov. (Neckeraceae) is described from northern Vietnam. It is morphologically closest to the SE Asian N. undulatifolia (Tix.) Enroth, with which it shares the similar, ovate-ligulate and symmetric leaves with coarsely dentate apices, and strongly incrassate and porose leaf cell walls. However, N. undulatifolia has the stems up to 10 cm long and a distinct costa reaching to 5/6 of leaf length, while the stems of N. praetermissa are to c. 3 cm long and the leaves are ecostate or with a weak costa reaching to 1/6 of leaf length at most.