Ignatov M.S.1,2, Abakarova A.S.3, Alekseev P.I.4, Ku?era J.5 2016. Cynodontium eocenicum, a new moss from the Baltic Amber // Arctoa. Vol. 25: 236–240 [in English].
1 Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Str., 4, Moscow, 127276 Russia; e-mail: misha_ignatov@list.ru
2 Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234 Russia
3 Mountain Botanical Garden of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, 45 Gadgiev Street, Makhachkala, Republic Dagestan, 367000, Russia; e-mail: asya_abakarova@list.ru
4 Komarov Botanical Institute Rus. Acad. Sci., Prof. Popov Str., 2, St. Petersburg, 197376 Russia; e-mail: paulusalex@mail.ru
5 University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Branišovská 1760, CZ–370 05 ?eské Bud?jovice, Czech Republic, e-mail: kucera@prf.jcu.cz
KEYWORDS: Eocene, bryophytes, Dicranales, Rhabdoweisiaceae, amber inclusions
ABSTRACT. A new species, tentatively recognized within the moss genus Cynodontium, is described from the Baltic Amber based on well preserved plant gametophyte. Its overall habit, presence of distinct teeth in the leaf apex and recurved leaf margins resemble most modern species of the genus, although the characteristics of scattered papillae and absence of diagnostic characters precludes its unequivocal identification with any extant species. Among the acrocarpous moss taxa previously described from the Baltic Amber, the papillose cells were known only in Hypnodontopsis, a markedly smaller moss, with entire and not strongly channelled leaves.
doi 10.15298/arctoa.25.19