Four Remarkable Additions to the Biodiversity of Chinese Mosses

Mamtimin Sulayman; Vladimir Fedosov; Vítězslav Plášek

doi:10.3390/plants11192590

Four Remarkable Additions to the Biodiversity of Chinese Mosses

Plants (Basel). 2022 Sep 30;11(19):2590. doi: 10.3390/plants11192590.

Authors

Mamtimin Sulayman¹, Vladimir Fedosov^{2

3}, Vítězslav Plášek^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China.
² Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia.
³ Botanical Garden-Institute, FEB RAS, Makovskogo Street 142, 690024 Vladivostok, Russia.
⁴ Department of Botany, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic.
⁵ Institute of Biology, University of Opole, Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.

Abstract

Four species of moss genus Schistidium are reported for the first time from China. All of them have been found in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Ecological and distributional details of the newly recorded species are provided and their local distribution is mapped. Photographs of the species are attached. Checklist of Schistidium species and identifying key are added. Considering the present records, Schistidium consists of 15 species in China.

Keywords: Asia; China; Musci; Schistidium; Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; bryophytes; checklist; distribution maps; identifying key; phytogeography.

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