Spore Germination and Protonemal Development of Dolichomitriopsis diversiformis

Abstract

Dolichomitriopsis diversiformis is an endemic and threatened moss in eastern

Spore germination and young gametophyte development of the endemic Brazilian hornwort Notothylas vitalii Udar & Singh (Notothyladaceae - Anthocerotophyta), with insights into sporeling evolution

“…Studies of spore germination and sporeling development patterns, for example, have been used to support the phylogenetic or systematic relationships of many bryophyte species among the liverworts Fossombronia cristula (Renzaglia & Bartholomew 1985) and Monoclea gottschei (Bartholomew-Began & Crandall-Stotler 1994), mosses Braunia secunda, Hedwigia ciliata, Hedwigidium integrifolium, Pseudobraunia californica, Rhacocarpus purpurascens (Luna 1990), and Dolichomitriopsis diversiformis (Liu et al 2016), and hornworts, the genera Notothylas and Phaeoceros (Menéndez 1988).…”