<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A new moss species, <italic>Didymodon ochyrarum</italic> J.A. Jiménez &amp; M.J. Cano, is described and illustrated from the tropical Andean highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. The species is distinguished morphologically by its lanceolate to long-lanceolate leaves that are strongly appressed when dry, leaf base widely ovate, acute apices, plane leaf margins and distally bistratose, excurrent costa, epapillose laminal cells, and marginal basal cells running up the margin forming a distinctly differentiated area of transversely thick-walled cells. Drawings and light microscope photographs of the new species are provided, and possible confusion with other closely related taxa is discussed.</p></abstract>

A new moss species, Didymodon ochyrarum J.A. Jiménez & M.J. Cano, is described and illustrated from the tropical Andean highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. The species is distinguished morphologically by its lanceolate to long-lanceolate leaves that are strongly appressed when dry, leaf base widely ovate, acute apices, plane leaf margins and distally bistratose, excurrent costa, epapillose laminal cells, and marginal basal cells running up the margin forming a distinctly differentiated area of transversely thick-walled cells. Drawings and light microscope photographs of the new species are provided, and possible confusion with other closely related taxa is discussed.

<italic>Didymodon ochyrarum</italic> (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), a new Andean species from tropical South America

Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Biología

Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales

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 (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), a new Andean species from tropical South America

A new moss species, Didymodon ochyrarum J.A. Jiménez & M.J. Cano, is described and illustrated from the tropical Andean highlands of Venezuela, Colombia,...

Didymodon ochyrarum (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), a new Andean species from tropical South America

Published Online: Jul 01, 2019

Page range: 135 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2019-0013

Keywords
bryophytes, Musci, Neotropics, Tropical Andes, taxonomy

© 2019 Juan A. Jiménez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Didymodon ochyrarum (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), a new Andean species from tropical South America

Published Online: Jul 01, 2019

Page range: 135 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2019-0013

Keywordsbryophytes, Musci, Neotropics, Tropical Andes, taxonomy

© 2019 Juan A. Jiménez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
bryophytes, Musci, Neotropics, Tropical Andes, taxonomy