ALLENIELLA AEGAEA BLOCKEEL & HUGONNOT (NECKERACEAE), A NEW MOSS SPECIES FROM THE AEGEAN ISLANDS OF GREECE

Authors

  • Tom L. BLOCKEEL 9 Ashfurlong Close, Sheffield S17 3NN, U.K
  • Vincent HUGONNOT e Bourg, 43380 Blassac, France
  • Johannes ENROTH Botanical Museum, P.O. Box 7, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Michael S. IGNATOV Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden Russian Acad. Sci., Botanicheskaya 4, Moscow 127276 Russia and Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
  • Oxana I. KUZNETSOVA Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden Russian Acad. Sci., Botanicheskaya 4, Moscow 127276 Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21406/abpa.2023.11.1.225

Keywords:

Alleniella aegaea, mosses, Neckeraceae, new species, phylogeny, taxonomy

Abstract

A new moss species, Alleniella aegaea (Neckeraceae) is described and illustrated from the Greek islands of Crete, Samos and Evvia based on morphological and molecular evidence. According to phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ITS and plastid trnS-F sequences it is sister to A. complanata, which it also morphologically resembles, but it differs from that species e.g. in its distinctly flattened habit, lack of caducous branchlets, more rounded leaf apices, and shorter median laminal cells. Alleniella aegaea is dioicous and the sporophytes remain unknown.

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Published

2023-07-01

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023): Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis

Section

Research paper

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