Meteoridium and Zelometeorium in Bolivia
- The genera Meteoridium and Zelometeorium are described and illustrated from 73 collections made by the author in Bolivia. Barbella tenuissima (Hook. & Wils.) Fleisch. is transferred to the genus Meteoridium as Meteoridium tenuissimum (Hook. & Wils.) M. Lewis comb. nov. Due to its hypnobryoid peristome and other characters, the genus Meteoridium is placed in the Brachytheciaceae. Meteoridium remotifolium (C. Müll.) Manuel shows marked variation over its altitudinal range and four ecoforms are recognized. Distribution records show that the species of these two genera have distinct ranges, with only Meteoridium remotifolium overlapping the ranges of the other species. Habitat data shows that none of the species treated are obligate epiphytes, and that they grow equally well in terrestrial habitats.
| Author: | Marko Lewis |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-302065 |
| ISSN: | 0935-5626 |
| Parent Title (English): | Tropical bryology |
| Publisher: | D. Quandt, Univ. Bonn, Nees Inst. für Biodiversität d. Pflanzen |
| Place of publication: | Bonn |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 1992 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1992 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/07/11 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 35 |
| Last Page: | 53 |
| Note: | The layout of the electronic version of this contribution differs from the layout of the original version published in the printed volume. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 348836910 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 58 Pflanzen (Botanik) / 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Tropical Bryology / Tropical Bryology, Volume 5 (1992) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-301389 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
