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Issue: Vol. 65 No. 1 (2012)
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2012-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.65.1.13
Page range: 52–56
Abstract views: 23
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Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 8. New combinations and some lectotypifications in Mesoptychia

Department of Botany, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-12801 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605–2496, USA
Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605–2496, USA
Mesoptychia lectotypifications Bryophytes

Abstract

Mesoptychia sahlbergii (Lindberg & Arnell 1889) Evans (1903), was shown by de Roo et al. (2007), Vilnet et al. (2011) and Masuzaki et al. (2010) to belong to Jungermanniaceae and to be a sister of or nested within Leiocolea (Müller 1913) Buch (1933). The type of the genus Hattoriella (Inoue 1957) Inoue (1961a) [Hattoriella diversiloba  (= H. morrisoncola)] is also nested within Leiocolea (Yatsentyuk et al. 2004).  The three genera Mesoptychia, Leiocolea and Hattoriella should thus be regarded as one. Since the oldest genus is Mesoptychia, the necessary new combinations are made here.