Academic literature on the topic 'Funariaceae'

Wilding, Nicholas (2017): Three new species of Entosthodon Schwägr. (Bryopsida, Funariaceae) from sub-Saharan Africa. Phytotaxa 312 (1): 103-110, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.312.1.8

Three species of acrocarpous mosses, viz., Entosthodon wallichii Mitt. (Funariaceae), Splachnobryum aquaticum Mull.Hal. (Splachnobryaceae), and Tortula rubripila Dixon (Pottiaceae), collected from different localities of Andhra Pradesh, are new distributional records for Peninsular India.

Dias, Maria Sulamita, Peralta, Denilson Fernandes, Neto, Sebastião José Da Silva (2018): Taxonomic treatment of the Funariaceae from Brazil. Phytotaxa 357 (2): 77-93, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.357.2.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.357.2.1

Three genera and eleven species of Funariaceae are recognized for Brazil: Entosthodon Schwägr. (4 species), Funaria Hedw. (2 species), and Physcomitrium (Brid.) Brid. (5 species). Entosthodon ramulosus (Hampe) M.S.Dias & D.F.Peralta is a new combination, three lectotypes are indicated, and thirteen names are placed in synonymy: Funaria beyrichii Hampe with F. calvescens Schwägr., Funaria luteo-limbata Broth. and Entosthodon obtuso-apiculatus Mull.Hal. with Entosthodon ramulosus; Physcomitrium flavum (Müll.Hal.) Broth. with Entosthodon bonplandii (Hook.) Mitt.; Physcomitrium badium Broth. with P. umbonatum Mitt.; Physcomitrium lindmanii Broth. and P. convolutaceum Müll.Hal. with P. thieleanum Hampe; Physcomitrium acutifolium Broth., P. brevirostre Broth., P. serrulatum Mitt., P. cupulare Müll.Hal., P. platyphylloides Paris and P. sylvestre Müll.Hal. with P. subsphaericum Schimp. Six names are excluded from Brazil moss flora. Keys, diagnostic descriptions, and illustrations are presented for all recognized species.

Chromosome numbers, obtained from meiotic and /or mitotic studies on various mosses from Papua New Guinea, represent new data for 18 species in 15 genera in the following 13 families:- Entodontaceae, Funariaceae, Garovagliaceae; Hookeriaceae, Hypnaceae, Hypopterygiaceae, Leucobryaceae, Mniaceae, Pottiaceae, Pterobryaceae, Racopilaceae, Rhizogoniaceae, and Spiridentaceae.

Ignatov, Michael S., Ignatova, Elena A., Czernyadjeva, Irina V., Goffinet, Bernard, Kuznetsova, Oxana I., Fedosov, Vladimir E. (2015): Afoninia, a new moss genus of Funariaceae from Transbaikalia (East Siberia, Russia). Arctoa 24 (1): 14-20, DOI: 10.15298/arctoa.24.02, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/arctoa.24.02

Ma, Wen-Zhang, Shevock, James R., He, Si, Liu, Yan (2020): Entosthodon elimbatus (Bryophyta, Funariaceae), a new species from the subalpine region in Yunnan and E. physcomitrioides new for mainland China. Phytotaxa 451 (2): 103-112, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.451.2.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.451.2.1

Entosthodon Schwägr. (Funariaceae) is a genus of soil-inhabiting, annual to biennial mosses occurring worldwide in temperate to tropical-montane climates. Although a number of regional revisions and treatments exist for the genus, in many parts of the world, it remains poorly known. This is perhaps especially true in Africa, where the identities of most species names are obscure. Furthermore, recent work on the Funariaceae suggests that the sporophytes, long used as the main basis for classification and identification in the group, exhibit high levels of homoplasy and that Entosthodon is paraphyletic as currently circumscribed. I further test the monophyly of Entosthodon, and its relationships to other members of the Funarioideae, through phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences from four chloroplast regions. These analyses included 45 Entosthodon species (ca. 50 % of those currently recognised), as well as an additional 22 species comprising representatives of all genera of the subfamily (except the rare, monotypic genera Cygnicollum, Clavitheca, Nanomitrella and Brachymeniopsis and the recently described monotypic Afoninia). Bayesian analyses of these data strongly contradict the monophyly of Entosthodon, and it is instead resolved as paraphyletic to a large clade comprising mostly members of Physcomitrium and Physcomitrella. Within this grade, five well supported lineages are resolved - the first comprises 3 species of Entosthodon and is sister to the second lineage, the monotypic Physcomitrellopsis. The third is sister to the afore mentioned i clades and comprises 11 species of Entosthodon within which the monotypic genus Funariella is embedded. The fourth lineage comprises 7 species of Entosthodon and is sister to a clade within which a Physcomitrium-Physcomitrella group is sister to the fifth lineage - a large clade comprising 24 species of Entosthodon. Entosthodon hungaricus is shown to belong in the Physcomitrium clade instead, consistent with its rostrate operculum. Based on the phylogeny, a new classification of Entosthodon sensu lato is proposed. The genus is split into 4 genera (Amphoritheca, Fifeobryum gen nov., Funariella and Entosthodon sens. str.) and the monophyletic Physcomitrellopsis is also maintained. Because of a lack of diagnostic morphological taxonomic characters this new classification is based largely on the molecular circumscription of clades. Nonetheless, particular character combinations do largely characterise most of these genera, albeit that frequent reversals render particular character states non-diagnostic. A revision of these five genera for Africa results in the recognition of twentysix species in total: three in Amphoritheca, 12 in Entosthodon, one in Physcomitrellopsis, one in Fifeobryum, and nine in Funariella. Six of these species, 4 in Entosthodon and 2 in Funariella, are newly described based on specimens from East and southern Africa. A key to the sub-Saharan species is provided, and each is fully described, mapped and illustrated.