Morphological and molecular data support reinstatement of Spiridens muelleri Hampe (Bryophyta: Hypnodendraceae), a Lord Howe Island endemic
David A. Meagher A and Michael J. Bayly A B
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A School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: mbayly@unimelb.edu.au
Australian Systematic Botany 27(2) 95-103 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB14001
Submitted: 1 January 2014 Accepted: 18 July 2014 Published: 6 October 2014
Abstract
For more than 75 years, the Lord Howe Island moss Spiridens muelleri Hampe has been considered conspecific with Spiridens vieillardii Schimp., originally described from New Caledonia. A comparison of morphological characters not previously considered, along with DNA sequences from three chloroplast loci (trnL–trnF, rps4–trnS, rpl32–trnL) and ITS-2 of nuclear rDNA, supports their recognition as separate species.
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