Resurrection of the Plagiothecium longisetum Lindb. and proposal of the new species-P. angusticellum.

ABSTRACT: Plagiothecium longisetum was described by Lindberg in 1872, based on Maximowicz materials from Japan. In the 1970s, this species was synonymized with P. nemorale. However, a polyphasic approach applied to the investigation of the P. nemorale sensu lato showed a clear separation between the specimens of former P. longisetum and the type of P. nemorale. Morphological features and molecular analyses provide evidence that those two groups are distinct, as well as allowed to describe the new species. The results are strongly supported by the statistical analyses of morphometric features and phylogenetic analyses based on concatenated nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers. The maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) analyses of ITS, rps4 and rpl16 regions place both species outside the

SUBMITTER: Wolski GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065767 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature