Claim · model-written summary
Forsstroemia with 19 species, concentrated in Asia, is the largest genus in the Neckeraceae.
- Taxon
- Forsstroemia
Forsstroemiae1 - Outcome
- largest genus in the Neckeraceaee1
- Setting
- Asiae1
Verbatim
t0“Neckera, Forsstroemia and Alleniella (Neckeraceae, Bryophyta)”
e1“Forsstroemia with 19 species, heavily concentrated in Asia, is the largest genus in the Neckeraceae”
Title
Johannes Enroth; Sanna Olsson; Sanna Huttunen; et al. The Bryologist 2022. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-125.2.311
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Observation Phylogenetic reconstruction suggests numerous taxonomic changes within the Neckeraceae.
- Observation Taiwanobryopsis is described as a new genus to accommodate Neckera warburgii.
- Observation Indoneckera is described as a new genus to accommodate Neckera himalayana.
- Observation Seven Asian Neckera species are transferred to Forsstroemia.
- Observation A further four Asian species are transferred to Taiwanobryum.
- Observation Six Southern Hemisphere or tropical species are transferred to Alleniella.
- Observation After the transfers, Neckera is a northern hemisphere, mainly temperate genus of about 10 species absent from the tropics.
- Observation Neckera is characterized by lack of paraphyllia (except N. californica) and an absent or weak costa.
- Observation Alleniella has two species in the northern hemisphere, the first diverging lineages.
- Observation The remaining 15 Alleniella species are distributed in the southern hemisphere.
- Observation Most Alleniella species occur in tropical mountain habitats.
- Observation Alleniella is absent from tropical Asia and very scarce in Asia in general.
- Observation Twelve of the 15 Alleniella species have paraphyllia, the clearest distinction from Neckera.
- Observation Forsstroemia has a clearly longer and more distinct costa than Neckera and Alleniella.
- Observation Taiwanobryum is a morphologically heterogeneous Asian genus of nine species.
- Observation Neckera decurrens is synonymized with Forsstroemia fauriei.
- Observation Neckera valentiniana is synonymized with Alleniella ehrenbergii.