Octoblepharum peristomiruptum (Octoblepharaceae) a new species from the Neotropics

By

Salazar Allen, Noris
Gudiño, José A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

164

Pages

1--9

Subjects

Brazil , Bryophyta , fenestrate , Panama , Peristome , reticulate

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.164.51783

 

Abstract

Octoblepharum peristomiruptum, a new species of moss in the family Octoblepharaceae from Panama and Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species is characterised by plants with a reddish-purple colour particularly at the leaf bases, peristomes of eight teeth, each tooth composed of two rows of cells, fenestrate and usually completely separated at the base, strongly vertically striate-reticulate, some striations forked-like in shape. At the base of the teeth, some striations are horizontally orientated, poorly developed or absent, particularly on the cell wall that is rupturing in the separation of the vertical rows of the cells that form each tooth.