TY  - JOUR
A1  - Allen, Bruce H.
A1  - Crosby, Marshall R.
T1  - Revision of the genus Squamidium (Musci: Meteoriaceae)
T2  - Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory : devoted to bryology and lichenology
T2  - Hattori-Shokubutsu-Kenkyūsho-hōkoku
N2  - The genus Squamidium, a group of mosses with a tropical to subtropical American-African distribution, consists of two sections and seven species (prior to this study 27 species were recognized): sect. Squamidium (S. leucotrichum, S. livens, S. isocladum, S. nigricans, S. brasiliense) and sect. Macrosquamidium (S. macrocarpum and S. diversicoma). Twenty-four names are treated as syn. nov., three are provisionally excluded pending an examination of their types, and one new combination is made: Orthostichopsis pilotrichelloides (Sehnem) Allen & Crosby. Section Squamidium ist characterized by immersed capsules, stolon leaves with entire margins, and a relatively high basal membrane. Section Macrosquamidium is characterized by exserted capsules, stolon leaves with sharply recurved marginal teeth, and a relatively low basal membrane. The genus is retained in the Meteoriaceae. Within the Meteoriaceae Squamidium, is most closely related to Zelotmeteorium from which it differs only by its lack of squarrose-recurved leaves and its more well-developed alar cells. Squamidium, which in the absence of sporophytes has been confused consistently with Orthostichopsis, is separated from that genus on the basis of its lack of pseudoparaphyllia, weaker costae, lack of a distinct region of reddish cells across the leaf base, and strongly decurrent alar cells.
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16568
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1097520
SN  - 0073-0912
N1  - Signatur: SZ 910
VL  - 61
SP  - 423
EP  - 476
PB  - Hattori Botanical Laboratory
CY  - Nichinan, Miyazaki
ER  -