“…Raising an axenic culture of bryophytes is challenging due to delicate plant body, small size and close proximity of plant parts to the soil. Several studies have succeeded in raising axenic cultures in taxa like Grimmia dissimulata, Syntrichia ruralis, S. laevipila and S. princeps (Bagdatli and Erdag 2017), Hyophilla nymaniana (Mishra et al, 2014), Entosthodon hungaricus , Marchantia linearis (Krishnan and Murugan 2014), Funariella curviseta, Orthotrichum handiense, Entosthodon commutatus and E. hungaricus (Ros et al, 2013), Thamnobryum alopecurum (Sabovljević et al, 2012), Anthoceros agrestis (Szövényi et al, 2015), Marchantia polymorpha , Pogonatum urnigerum (Cvetic et al, 2007), Frullania ericoides (Silva-e-costa et al, 2017), Amblystegium serpens (Cvetić et al, 2005), Bryum argentum and B.capillare (Sabovljević et al, 2002), Herzogiella seligeri , Riccia billardieri (Mahesh et al, 2018), Rhodobryum giganteum (Chen et al, 2009). Genus Philonotis of the family Bartramiaceae consist of 169 species worldwide, with over 26 species in India (Nisha et al, 2018).…”