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Volume 65, Issue 1, July 2023

Articles

Forsstroemia producta (Neckeraceae) – New to Indian moss flora from Kumaun Region of Western Himalayas

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v65/2023/172412

Published 2023-07-27

  • Manisha Bhandari
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  • Sapana Pant
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  • S. D. Tewari
    • ,
  • Johannes Enroth
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  • Prachi Joshi

Manisha Bhandari
Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Girls Post graduate College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

Sapana Pant
Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Girls Post graduate College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

S. D. Tewari
Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Girls Post graduate College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

Johannes Enroth
Botany Unit of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland-00014

Prachi Joshi
Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Girls Post graduate College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

Abstract

Forsstroemia producta (Hornsch.) Paris (Neckeraceae)–a widely distributed, pleurocarpous moss is documented for the first time in Indian bryoflora. The present report is based on a collection made from Cedrus Trew and Quercus L. dominated forests at Lohaghat and Mukteshwar in the Kumaun region of Western Himalayas, India. To support the new distributional record, a taxonomic description of the epiphytic moss, Forsstroemia Lindb. (F. producta), a member of the section Microforsstroemia Nog. is provided here.

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