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Issue: Vol. 385 No. 2: 28 December 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.385.2.1
Page range: 55–66
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

Scapania marsupelloides sp. nov. (Scapaniaceae, Marchantiophyta), a remarkable new species near the base of Scapania phylogeny

Botanical Garden-Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makovskogo 142, Vladivostok, 690024, Russia Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya 4, Moscow 127276, Russia
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden–Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kirovsk, 184256, Russia
Laboratory of Lichenology and Bryology, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 Professor Popov Street, St. Petersburg 197376, Russia
China leaf surface liverwort Scapaniaceae taxonomy Yunnan Bryophytes

Abstract

Scapania marsupelloides is described as new to science based on collection from Yunnan, China. The species looks different from the other known Scapania species and similar to Marsupella sphacelata. Molecular phylogenic analyses of ITS1-2 and trnL–trnF sequences suggested the close affinity of Scapania marsupelloides to S. contorta of the subgenus Ascapania. Description, line drawings, color and SEM images, and keys for differentiation of S. marsupelloides from S. cuspiduligera, S. contorta, S. pseudocontorta, S. hians and Marsupella sphacelata are provided.