Fissidens asplenioides Hedw. [Uruguay] New national and regional bryophyte records

GUILLERMO M. SUÁREZ & MARÍA M. SCHIAVONE

JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

MANEY PUBLISHING

Lugar: London; Año: 2013 vol. 35 p. 228 - 238

0373-6687

In the moss flora of Uruguay there are recorder ten species of genus Fissidens (Matteri, 2004). Three of them (F. macrobryoides, F. prionocheilos and F. vitreo-limbatus) are species incertae because the type material for the names not was located (Purssel, 2007). As part of project "Studies on Bryophytes in the Cone Sur (Systematic and Phylogeny)" some specimens recently collected in Uruguay were determinate as Fissidens asplenioides a no previously species recorded in this country. The presence of F. asplenioides in Uruguay complete the distribution range of the species in the cone Sur (is present in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay). However, within the Neotropical region there are few records of F. asplenoides in the phytogeographic province of Pampa. In Uruguay, where other bryophytes were recently recorded (Ellis et al., 2011, 2012a, b), F. asplenioides was collected in the river on semi-submerged rock.