“…However, plastome length in Pellidae doesn’t correlate with gene losses, while the second largest plastome of Pallavicinia (124,103 bp) and the smallest of Pellia neesiana (115,875 bp) have identical gene content, whereas plastomes of Apopellia with complete gene sets (120,537–120,947 bp), are smaller than Pallavicinia without cys A and cys T genes. Independently of gene loss, plastome reduction was also found in leafy Cephaloziineae, which plastomes ranged between 118,571 and 114,423 bp, despite identical gene sets 28 , 64 . Plastid gene losses are scattered along different evolutionary lineages including loss of cys A and cys T genes in Ptilidium pulcherrimum and Cheilolejeunea xanthocarpa 33 , 35 and additional four genes ( ndh F, rpl 21, rps 32 and ccs A) in Cololejeunea lanciloba 66 .…”