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1 October 2012 Orthotrichum cambrense sp. nov. (Orthotrichaceae), a Distinctive Moss from Wales, United Kingdom
Sam D.S. Bosanquet, Lara Francisco
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Abstract

Orthotrichum cambrense Bosanquet et F. Lara, is described from material recently collected on trees in a small area of Carmarthenshire, south Wales. The new moss has a unique combination of morphological traits, several of them highly distinctive: characteristic almost flat leaves, with plane margins and frequently rounded apices; brood bodies common on leaves and rhizoids; emergent furrowed capsules with cryptopore stomata in their lower third; a peristome of 8 pairs of teeth and 8 segments; and the calyptra hairy, especially in the upper part. This moss is not believed to be close to other species with plane leaf-margins in the subgenus Pulchella. However, several gametophytic and sporophytic details relate Orthotrichum cambrense to O. tenellum and similar species in this same subgenus. Reasons why such a distinctive moss has gone unnoticed until now are discussed.

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Sam D.S. Bosanquet and Lara Francisco "Orthotrichum cambrense sp. nov. (Orthotrichaceae), a Distinctive Moss from Wales, United Kingdom," Cryptogamie, Bryologie 33(4), 329-339, (1 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.7872/cryb.v33.iss4.2012.329
Received: 1 March 2011; Accepted: 1 April 2012; Published: 1 October 2012
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British Isles
Bryophytes
Orthotrichum tenellum
taxonomy
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