Ma W.Zh.1, Long D.G.2, Kuznetsova O.I.3, Ignatova E.A.4, Ignatov M.S.3,4 2018. Rheoshevockia (Symphyodontaceae, Bryophyta), a new rheophytic moss genus from Yunnan, China // Arctoa. Vol. 27: 104–111 [in English].
1 – Herbarium, CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
2 – Royal Botanic Garden, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK
3 – Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Str., 4, Moscow 127276 Russia.
4 – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Faculty, Geobotany Dept., Leninskie Gory Str. 1-12, Moscow 119234 Russia. E-mail: misha_ignatov@list.ru
Keywords: new taxa, Rheoshevockia fontana, Glossadelphus, Phyllodon, molecular phylogeny, ITS, trnL-F, rps4, nad5
ABSTRACT. A rheophytic moss from Yunnan superficially similar to Hygrohypnum was found to belong to the Symphyodontaceae, and is resolved in a position sister to the genus Symphyodon in phylogenies by all four studied DNA markers: nuclear ITS, chloroplast trnL-F and rps4 and mitochondrial nad5. It is described as a new genus and species, Rheoshevockia fontana Ignatov, W.Z. Ma & D.G. Long, as it is strikingly different from species of the mainly epiphytic genus Symphyodon. This is not a unique case where molecular phylogenetic studies reveal a close though unexpected relationship between epiphytic and rheophytic mosses.
Doi 10.15298/arctoa.27.10