Desmotheca (Orthotrichaceae) : Gondwanan fragmentation and the origin of a Southeast Asian genus
- Desmotheca Lindberg was proposed in 1872 as a replacement name for the illegitimate Cryptocarpon Dozy & Molk. (1844) and Cryptocarpus Dozy & Molk. (1846). Seven names have been placed in these genera, from which two species appear to be taxonomically valid. Desmotheca apiculata (Dozy & Molk.) Card. occurs from New Caledonia and New Guinea west to Indonesia and the Andaman Islands, north to Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and Mindanao in the Philippines, while D. brachiata (Hook. & Wils.) Vitt comb. nova is restricted to the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The evolution and dispersal of this genus can be related to the northward movement of Gondwanan island blocks during the Cretaceous.
| Author: | Dale H. Vitt |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-301914 |
| 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: | 1990 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1990 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/07/11 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 79 |
| Last Page: | 88 |
| 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: | 348821131 |
| 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 3 (1990) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-301350 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
