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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-11-05
Page range: 178–180
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Octoblepharum pocsii (Calymperaceae), a recently described African moss species new to Laos and Asia

Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
Africa Indochina moss Octoblepharum paleotropic disjunction

Abstract

The genus Octoblepharum Hedwig (1801: 50), consisting of 18 accepted species, is mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with four species in Africa, one in Asia, and the majority of the species in the Neotropics; it is seldom found in temperate latitudes (Eddy 1990, Salazar-Allen 1991, Magill & Allen 2013).