Hookeria acutifolia (Hookeriaceae, Bryophyta), A Genus and Species New for Thailand

Abstract

Hookeria acutifolia Hook. & Grev. is reported here as a new genus and species record for Thailand. A description, line drawing and photographs are provided, and its lectotype is designated here.

Hookeria acutifolia (Hookeriaceae, Bryophyta), a new species for the moss flora of Russia

“…Hookera acutifolia has a warm-temperate to tropical distribution. Its area core is in East Asia: it is rather com mon in Japan (Iwatsuki 1991), occures in continental China and Taiwan (Peng-cheng et al 2002); it is recorded for Ko rea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bhutan, India, the Phi lip pines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (GBIF.org) and recently for Thailand (Juengprayoon et al 2016). It is known throughout the New World: scattered in eastern North Ame rica, disjunctive to British Columbia and Washington state (Eckel 2014); Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia (GBIF.org).…”

Notes on Distichophyllum armatum (Daltoniaceae, Bryophyta) in Thailand

“…He, 1998;Akiyama, 2006;Ho et al, 2010). The discovery of new species and new records of mosses from Thailand (e.g., Ho et al, 2010;Printarakul et al, 2014;Hassama & Chantanaorrapint, 2015;Sukkharak & He, 2015;Juengprayoon et al, 2016), suggests that many bryophyte taxa await discovery in this country.…”