Plagiochila (sect. Arrectae) punctata, previously known from the Neotropics, Africa and Europe, has been collected on a sandstone cliff in a rockhouse type environment in Tennessee, new to North America. Maximum likelihood analyses based on nrITS1–5.8S-ITS2 sequences of several species of Plagiochila sect. Arrectae resolve the Tennessee specimen in a robust P. punctata subclade with accessions from Ecuador and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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1 June 2006
Plagiochila punctata (Plagiochilaceae) in Tennessee, new to North America
Paul G. Davison,
David K. Smith,
Kathrin Feldberg,
Melanie Lindner and Jochen Heinrichs
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The Bryologist
Vol. 109 • No. 2
Summer 2006
Vol. 109 • No. 2
Summer 2006
distribution
internal transcribed spacer (ITS)
North America
nuclear ribosomal DNA
Plagiochila punctata
Plagiochila sect. Arrectae
Tennessee