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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 156, 173–220. With 93 figures 

The genus Tortula (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) in 

South America 

MARÍA J. CANO* and M. TERESA GALLEGO 

Departamento de Biología Vegetal (Botánica), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, E-30100, 

Spain 

Received 20 September 2006; accepted for publication 23 August 2007 

The moss genus Tortula is revised for South America. A key, descriptions, illustrations, distribution data, and light 

and scanning electron micrographs of the 11 species recognized are provided. A new species, Tortula arequipensis, 

is described from Peru. Twenty-six names are lectotypified. Thirty eight species are excluded from the genus 

Tortula. Six new combinations are proposed: Syntrichia breviseta, Syntrichia buchtienii, Syntrichia napoana, 

Syntrichia polylepidis, Syntrichia pseudolatifolia, and Tortula diaguita. Thirty-six names are newly synonymized. 

Previous records of Tortula vahliana from Chile correspond to Tortula platyphylla. Microbryum davallianum, 

Tortula cernua, Tortula hoppeana, and T. vahliana are newly reported for South America. In addition, new records 

for different countries of the study area are reported. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal 

of the Linnean Society, 2008, 156, 173–220. 

ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: bryophytes – taxonomy – typifications. 

INTRODUCTION 

The genus Tortula Hedw. represents one of the most 

complex and diverse genera in terms of morphological 

variation in the family Pottiaceae. It includes 

approximately 144 species in the world (Crosby et al., 

1999), distributed mainly in temperate areas of the 

Northern Hemisphere. 

Its taxonomic circumscription has been controversial 

over the last two centuries, and there has been no 

consensus on which species, or even other genera, 

should be included. Zander (1989, 1993), in his classification 

of the genera of Pottiaceae, recognized 

genera such as Chenia R.H. Zander, Dolotortula R.H. 

Zander, Hennediella Paris, Hilpertia R.H. Zander, 

Sagenotortula R.H. Zander, Stonea R.H. Zander, 

and Syntrichia Brid., as segregated from Tortula, and 

included taxa that traditionally were placed in other 

genera, such as some species of Pottia Ehrh. ex 

Fürnr., Phascum Hedw. (for example, Phascum cuspidatum 

Hedw.), and the genus Desmatodon Brid. 

The genus, as emended, is characterized by a stem 

*Corresponding author. E-mail: mcano@um.es 

with a central strand and an absence of sclerodermis 

and hyalodermis, a usually yellow colour of the KOH 

leaf reaction, costa in cross-section with dorsal and 

ventral surface cells developed, with hydroids, band 

of the ventral stereids usually undifferentiated, and 

dorsal band of the stereids well differentiated, and 

usually semicircular in shape. In addition, Zander 

(1993) noted that some genera, such as Pterygoneurum 

Jur. and Crossidium Jur., were morphologically 

very close to Tortula, and even some species of 

Crossidium could be more appropriately included in 

Tortula. Studies using rps4 and internal transcribed 

spacer (ITS) sequences have also shown the complexity 

of the phylogeny and infrageneric classification of 

Tortula and its relationship with certain genera, such 

as Crossidium, Pterygoneurum, and Stegonia Venturi 

(Werner et al., 2002; Cano, Werner & Guerra, 2005). 

Therefore, the circumscription of the genus Tortula 

requires further study, as a first step towards a taxonomic 

revision of the genus. 

With the exception of the treatment of Brotherus 

(1924a), the genus Tortula has never been monographed 

or critically revised; only regional treatments 

exist, which are included in diverse floras, including 

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those of Steere (1939) for the flora of North America 

and north Mexico, Lawton (1971) for the Pacific 

North-west of North America, Nyholm (1989) for 

Scandinavia and Finland, Mishler (1994) for Mexico, 

Smith (2004) for Great Britain and Ireland, and Cano 

(2006) for Spain. According to Allen (2002) and Delgadillo, 

Bello & Cárdenas (1995), this genus is not 

represented in Central America and the West Indies. 

The only treatment including the South American 

species of Tortula was performed by Mitten (1869). He 

recognized 99 species in the genus Tortula; however, 

in his concept of this genus, species currently in the 

genera Aloina Kindb., Aloinella Cardot, Barbula 

Hedw., Bryoerythrophyllum P.C. Chen, Didymodon 

Hedw., Dolotortula, Hennediella, Hyophiladelphus 

(Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander, Pseudocrossidium R.S. 

Williams, Pterygoneurum, Sagenotortula, Syntrichia, 

Trichostomum Bruch, and Tortella (Lindb.) Limpr. 

were included. The only species presently in Tortula 

which were included in Mitten’s work are as follows: 

T. acaulon (With.) R.H. Zander (as Phascum cuspidatum 

Hedw.), T. atrovirens (Turner ex Sm.) Lindb., 

T. muralis Hedw., T. muricola (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., and 

T. platyphylla Mitt. Other species reported in Mitten’s 

work, such as T. contorta (Hampe) Mont., T. crenata 

Mitt., and T. peruviana Mitt., have not been studied 

further, and therefore their status remains unclear. 

This paper presents a taxonomic revision of the 

genus Tortula in South America. The aim is to assess 

the morphological variation and to delimit the species 

in the genus Tortula in this area. The present revision 

provides a first contribution to a future study of the 

family Pottiaceae in South America. 

MATERIAL AND METHODS 

This revision is based on more than 250 specimens 

from the following herbaria: AAS, B, BA, BM, BR, 

CANM, FH, FI, FLAS, GZU, H, HBG, JE, L, LD, M, 

MO, MUB, NY, O, PC, RB, S, SGO, U, UPS, and US. 

Curators from CAS, EGR, F, GOET, HB, LIL, MAPR, 

PMA, and UPTL, and W. J. P. Frahm and Ph. 

Sollman, kindly answered our request, but they did 

not find any of the requested specimens in their 

herbaria. This study also includes new material collected 

by the first author during fieldwork in Chile 

and Peru, deposited at MUB and with duplicates in 

CONC and USM. 

The studied area includes the following countries: 

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, 

Guyana, French Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, 

Uruguay, and Venezuela. However, no species of 

Tortula have been found in Colombia, Ecuador, 

French Guyana, Guyana, and Suriname.` 

The names of Tortula and the currently included 

genera, such as Pottia and Phascum, were checked 

in Index Muscorum (Wijk, Margadant & Florschütz, 

1967, 1969) and in the main South American checklist 

(Buck, 1985; Greene, 1986; Yano, 1989, 1995, 1996; 

Delgadillo et al., 1995; He, 1998; Churchill, Griffin III 

& Muñoz, 2000; Matteri, 2003a, 2004) in order to 

locate taxa of these genera described in South 

America. More than 50 names were detected in 

Tortula in this area, although most are of doubtful 

status and known only from the type locality. In 

addition, the status of six species described or combined 

with Pottia and one name in Phascum, which 

have not been studied after their description, were 

detected. 

Microscopic examinations and measurements were 

taken with an Olympus-BH2 light microscope, and 

microphotographs were obtained with a Spot insight 

3.5 camera mounted on this microscope. Specimens 

were examined in 2% KOH solution. To avoid developmental 

deviations, descriptions and illustrations 

were made from leaves taken from the middle of the 

stem. Cross-sections of vegetative leaves were made 

in the middle. The leaf width was measured in the 

middle. As some species show an intramarginal 

border, the marginal external cells are those placed 

one or two rows from the margins, and the marginal 

internal cells are those placed three or more rows 

from the margins, as shown in Figure 1. 

Leaf surface, peristome, and spores were also 

studied using a Jeol JSM-6100 scanning electron 

Figure 1. Scheme of the characters used to describe the 

laminal cells. 1A, Upper external marginal cells. 1B, 

Upper laminal cells. 2A, Middle internal marginal cells. 

2B, Middle laminal cells. 2C, Middle external marginal 

cells. 3A, Basal external marginal cells. 3B, Basal laminal 

cells. 

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microscope at an accelerating voltage of 15–20 kV. 

The material was fixed in 3% glutaraldehyde with 

0.1 M cacodylate buffer at 4 °C, washed in cacodylate 

and saccharose buffer, dehydrated in an increasing 

acetone gradient (30%, 50%, 70%, 90%, and 100%), 

critical point dried, and sputtered with a gold layer 

(thickness, 200–300 Å). 

In the taxonomic treatment, the synonyms included 

are those reported in the studied area. All type citations 

refer to the information on the labels of the type 

material. In the section of excluded names, those that 

are accepted are shown in bold type, and the first 

name given is the combination in Phascum, Pottia, or 

Tortula. New combinations are proposed when differential 

characters shown by the taxa suggest that they 

are independent species. For doubtful cases, we have 

only indicated the genus to which the species should 

be transferred. 

TAXONOMIC TREATMENT 

TORTULA HEDW., SP. MUSC. FROND.: 104. 1801 

Type: Tortula subulata Hedw. [lectotype designated 

by Steere (1939)]. 

Description: Plants of small size, growing in loose, 

dense turfs or gregarious, yellowish green to brown. 

Stems usually branched; in cross-section, circular, 

hyalodermis undifferentiated, sclerodermis absent or 

with the outer cells smaller and with thicker walled, 

central strand differentiated, sometimes weakly; 

axillary hairs of hyaline cells. Rhizoids, brownish, 

smooth; rhizoidal and protonematic gemmae sometimes 

developed. Leaves incurved to spirally twisted 

when dry, erect-patent to spreading when moist, 

usually ovate to lingulate or spathulate, occasionally 

orbicular, obovate, linear, oblong, or elliptical, flat to 

concave; base usually not differentiated; lamina unistratose; 

apex rounded to acute, sometimes tapering 

to the apex, apiculate or not, occasionally cucullate; 

margins revolute to recurved, occasionally plane, 

papillose-crenulate or entire, rarely denticulate near 

apex, uni- to bistratose, bordered or not, sometimes 

intramarginally, by short-rectangular to linear or 

oblate cells, usually less papillose or with smooth and 

thicker walls than the rest of the laminal cells; costa 

usually excurrent in a mucro, apiculus or hair-point 

hyaline, yellowish or brownish, smooth, rarely percurrent 

or ending below the apex; ventral surface cells of 

the costa mostly rectangular to quadrate or rounded, 

papillose or smooth, bulging or not; dorsal surface 

cells of the costa rectangular to linear, smooth or 

papillose; in cross-section, semicircular, circular, or 

elliptical with guide cells in one or two layers, band of 

ventral stereids usually undifferentiated, band of 

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dorsal stereids differentiated, semicircular or circular, 

more rarely oval in shape, sometimes with substereids, 

hydroids scarcely or well developed, ventral 

surface cells differentiated, usually quadrate to rectangular, 

rounded, disposed in one or two layers; 

dorsal surface cells differentiated; upper and middle 

laminal cells usually quadrate, short-rectangular or 

hexagonal, sometimes rhomboidal, rounded or oblate, 

usually thin-walled, not or slightly collenchymatous, 

smooth or more commonly papillose, with simple or 

bifurcate papillae; upper and middle marginal cells 

oblate, quadrate to rectangular or linear, rarely 

rounded or rhomboidal, usually thick-walled, smooth 

or papillose; basal laminal cells rectangular, sometimes 

oblate, usually inflated, hyaline, thin-walled, 

not or slightly collenchymatous, usually smooth; basal 

marginal cells quadrate to long-rectangular, thin- to 

slightly thick-walled, smooth. Dioecious or monoecious. 

Perichaetia terminal; leaves usually undifferentiated, 

rarely sheathing at base. Seta erect or 

curved, rarely slightly flexuose, usually spirally 

twisted to right above and to left below, sometimes 

straight or spirally twisted to left throughout, smooth, 

yellowish to reddish brown. Capsule erect, rarely 

horizontal to cernuous, cleistocarpous or stegocarpous, 

immersed or exserted; theca ovoid to cylindrical, 

more rarely globose, elliptical or turbinate, orange to 

reddish brown; exothecial cells quadrate to rectangular, 

thin- to thick-walled; stomata at theca base, 

superficial; annulus of one to three vesiculose or 

rounded, sometimes quadrate rows of cells, usually 

persistent, sometimes undifferentiated; peristome 

undifferentiated or of 16 or 32 filamentous or plane, 

sometimes anastomosed, papillose, spirally twisted or 

straight teeth, yellowish to orange or brownish, basal 

membrane usually differentiated, papillose, yellowish 

to orange or brown. Operculum long conical to rostrate, 

sometimes undifferentiated, occasionally systylious, 

with spirally twisted cells or in straight rows, 

orange to reddish brown. Calyptra cucullate, sometimes 

slightly mitrate, smooth, naked, yellow to 

brownish. Spores spherical to elliptical, granulate, 

sometimes clavate, baculate, verrucose or vermiculate, 

yellowish to brown. Leaf colour reaction with 

KOH yellow, rarely orange or with red spots. 

1. TORTULA ACAULON (WITH.) R.H. ZANDER, BULL. 

BUFFALO SOC. NAT. SCI. 32: 378. 1993 (FIGS 2–10) 

Phascum acaulon With., Syst. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. 4, 3: 

768. 1801. Ind. loc.: [Great Britain] ‘Heaths and ditch 

banks, garden walks, especially in a sandy soil. ..’. 

Type: not located. 

Phascum cuspidatum Hedw., Sp. Musc. Frond. 22. 

1801. Ind. loc.: ‘In hortorum areis ubique gregatim’. 

Type: G. 



Phascum calodictyon Müll. Hal., Flora 71: 4. 1888, 

syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Montevideo, in terra, Octobri 1877: 

Prof. Arechavaleta, Hb. Lund’. Type: ‘Uruguay, Montevideo’, 

x.1877, Arechavaleta s.n. (holotype: LD!). 

Description: Plants 0.3–0.7 cm high, growing in 

dense or loose turfs, green to yellowish green or 

yellowish brown. Stems 0.2–0.3 cm, usually branched. 

Rhizoidal and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. 

Leaves incurved to slightly spirally twisted when 

dry, erect-patent to patent when moist, triangularlanceolate 

to oblong or lingulate, concave to keeled, 

(0.9)1.3–2.5(3.7) ¥ 0.4–0.8 mm; apex acute, occasion- 

KEY TO SPECIES OF TORTULA IN SOUTH AMERICA 

1. Middle external marginal cells of the leaf linear to long-rectangular (length/width ratio, 7.5–40); capsule 

horizontal or cernuous........................................................................................................4. T. cernua 

1. Middle marginal external cells of the leaf quadrate, subquadrate, short-rectangular, or oblate [length/width ratio, 

(0.3)0.6–1.9(2.8)]; capsule erect...........................................................................................................2 

2. Upper and middle laminal cells smooth or with one to three simple papillae, 1 mm high..............................3 

2. Upper and middle laminal cells with (2)4–6(10) simple or bifurcate papillae, 2.5–5 mm high .........................5 

3. Capsules cleistocarpous, immersed; leaves usually triangular-lanceolate to oblong or lingulate.......1. T. acaulon 

3. Capsules stegocarpous, exerted; leaves obovate, linear or elliptical to lanceolate .........................................4 

4. Leaves elliptical to lanceolate, or linear; costa excurrent in a hair-point [(700)1230–1740 mm]; theca cylindrical; 

peristome of 32 papillose teeth .....................................................................................2. T. arequipensis 

4. Leaves usually obovate; costa percurrent or excurrent in a mucro (75–450 mm); theca turbinate; peristome teeth 

undifferentiated.............................................................................................................10. T. truncata 

5. Ventral surface cells of the costa rounded to rectangular, (15)22.5–25(32.5) mm in length, bulging, disposed in one 

to two layers (in cross-section) ...........................................................................................................6 

5. Ventral surface cells of the costa quadrate, rectangular, sometimes subquadrate, rarely oblate or rounded, 

(7.5)10–17.5 mm in length, not bulging, disposed in one layer (in cross-section)...........................................7 

6. Leaf lingulate to oblong-lingulate or obovate, rarely elliptical; leaf margins strongly recurved to revolute from near 

the base to near the apex ...............................................................................................3. T. atrovirens 

6. Leaf widely ovate to elliptical or orbicular; leaf margins plane ................................................5. T. diaguita 

7. Costa usually ending two to six cells below the leaf apex; basal laminal cells usually slightly thick-walled and 

papillose; perichaetial leaves slightly sheathing at base...........................................................7. T. jaffuelii 

7. Costa usually excurrent in a mucro, apiculus, hair-point, or percurrent, rarely ending two to three cells below the 

leaf apex; basal laminal cells thin-walled and smooth; perichaetial leaves not sheathing at base ...................8 

8. Middle laminal cells 12.5–20 mm wide .................................................................................................9 

8. Middle laminal cells (5)7.5–12.5(15) mm wide.......................................................................................10 

9. Leaves unbordered; peristome teeth 200–230 mm long, straight; spores 17.5–20 mm in diameter...6. T. hoppeana 

9. Leaves bordered; peristome teeth c. 510 mm long, spirally twisted; spores 7.5–10 mm in diameter.................... 

..................................................................................................................................11. T. vahliana 

10. Leaves without intramarginal borders or scarcely differentiated [length/width ratio of middle internal marginal 

cells (0.7)0.9–1.3(1.6)]; peristome teeth more than one turn spirally twisted; basal membrane of peristome 

(32.5)41.3–81.3(95) mm long ................................................................................................8. T. muralis 

10. Leaves with strongly differentiated intramarginal borders [length/width ratio of middle internal marginal cells 

(0.8)1.8–3.6(4)]; peristome teeth straight or less than one turn spirally twisted; basal membrane of peristome 

(87.5)100–132.5(150) mm long .........................................................................................9. T. platyphylla 

ally obtuse, tapering to the apex, not cucullate; 

margins recurved to revolute from near base to the 

apex, entire, occasionally slightly denticulate by 

projection of papillae, unistratose, unbordered; costa 

50–70 mm wide, excurrent in a hair-point 520– 

850 mm, yellowish, smooth; ventral surface cells of the 

costa rectangular, not bulging, smooth or slightly 

papillose in the upper part; dorsal surface cells of 

the costa rectangular, smooth; in cross-section, semicircular, 

with two guide cells in one layer, band of 

dorsal stereids semicircular, with one to three 

stereid rows, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, 

occasionally one layer of substereids, hydroids 

� 

Figures 2–9. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 3 – 5, 8, 9) and light micrographs (Figs 2, 6, 7) of Tortula acaulon 

(from Kuhnemann 175, PC). Fig. 2. Leaf. Fig. 3. Ventral surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 4. Middle laminal cells. Fig. 5. 

Middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 6. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 7. Cross-section of the middle marginal 

cells of the leaf. Fig. 8. Capsule. Fig. 9. Spore. 





Figure 10. Distribution of Tortula acaulon (�), T. arequipensis (�), and T. jaffuelii (�) in South America. 

developed, ventral surface cells rounded to oblate, 

12.5–15 ¥ 12.5(22.5) mm, disposed in one layer, dorsal 

surface cells differentiated; upper laminal cells 

quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular or quadrate, sometimes 

rhomboidal, 15–27.5 ¥ 7.5–20 mm, thin-walled, 

not collenchymatous, smooth or with one to two 

simple papillae, 1 mm high, upper external marginal 

cells rectangular, 15–20 ¥ 7.5–15 mm (length/width 

ratio, 1.2–2.7); middle laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

10–45 ¥ 10–12.5 mm, thin- to slightly thickwalled, 

not collenchymatous, with zero to three 

simple papillae, 1 mm high, middle external marginal 

cells rectangular to subquadrate, 12.5–27.5 ¥ 10– 

17.5 mm (length/width ratio, 0.8–2.8), thin- to slightly 

thick-walled, smooth, middle internal marginal cells 

rectangular to quadrate, 15–22.5 ¥ 10–15 mm (length/ 

width ratio, 1–2.3), thin- to slightly thick-walled, 

smooth; basal laminal cells rectangular, usually 

inflated, 50–92.5 ¥ 22.5–30 mm, thin-walled, not col- 

lenchymatous, smooth, basal external marginal cells 

rectangular, 45–57.5 ¥ 10–15 mm (length/width ratio, 

3.6–5.3), thin-walled, smooth. Autoecious. Perichaetial 

leaves undifferentiated, not sheathing at base, 

2.4–3.3 ¥ 0.5–0.8 mm. Seta erect, 0.2–0.4 ¥ 0.1– 

0.14 mm, straight, yellowish brown. Capsule erect, 

cleistocarpous, immersed; theca globose, apiculate, 

0.8–1.3 ¥ 0.6–1.1 mm, yellowish brown; exothecial 

cells rectangular, 22.5–67.5 ¥ 12.5–37.5 mm, thinwalled; 

annulus undifferentiated; peristome undifferentiated; 

basal membrane undeveloped. Operculum 

undifferentiated. Calyptra cucullate, 0.4–0.6 mm 

long, yellowish brown. Spores spherical, 25–35 mm in 

diameter, clavate to baculate, brownish. Leaf colour 

reaction with KOH yellow. 

Illustrations: Guerra (2006: 179 as Phascum cuspidatum); 

Mishler (1994: 379 as Phascum cuspidatum); 


Zander (1993: 220 as Tortula atherodes R.H. Zander, 

nom. inval.). 

Habitat: On soil; 0–30 m. 

Distribution: Argentina and Uruguay. Also known 

from Europe (Hill et al., 2006), temperate Asia 

(Li, Crosby & He, 2001), North Africa (Ros, Cano & 

Guerra, 1999), North America (Anderson, Crum & 

Buck, 1990), Central America (Mexico) (Mishler, 

1994), Australia (Streimann & Klazenga, 2002), and 

New Zealand (Fife, 1995). 

Additional specimens studied: ARGENTINA. BUENOS 

AIRES: Buenos Aires, 11.vi.1936, Kühnemann 175 

(PC). URUGUAY. MONTEVIDEO: Montevideo, vi.1874, 

Arechavaleta s.n. (NY); ibid., Gibert 1335 (NY). 

Notes: Tortula acaulon is easily recognized by its 

triangular-lanceolate to oblong leaves, smooth or 

slightly papillose distal laminal cells, acute apex, and 

cleistocarpous and immersed capsule. 

It was reported by Mitten (1869) from the Neotropics 

[‘Andes Quitenses, Spruce’]; however, no material 

was found at Mitten herbarium in NY which confirms 

this record. 

Phascum calodictyon was described by Müller 

(1888) in his paper on ‘Musci cleistocarpici novi’, 

where he commented that it was a species close to 

Phascum cuspidatum (Tortula acaulon). After examining 

the original material, which according to the 

protologue was deposited in LD, we could not find any 

morphological differences between this taxon and 

Tortula acaulon. Therefore, Phascum calodictyon is 

proposed as a new synonym of the latter species. 

2. TORTULA AREQUIPENSIS, SP. NOV. (FIGS 10–19) 

Diagnosis: Autoica. Phyllidia elliptica vel angustiora 

(lanceolata vel etiam linearia) sed apice acuta vel 

acuminata, margine dictincta carentia sed marginaliter 

plerumque recurvata; nervo in longum pilum 

hyalinum, flavidulum, excurrenti; laminae cellulis 

magnis, laevibus. Theca cylindrica, peristomatis dentibus, 

in basali brevi membrana insidentibus, parce 

spiraliter contortis. 

Type: PERU. AREQUIPA: pr. Chivay, cara sur nevado 

Huarancante, 15°45′30″S, 71°32′43″W, 1.iv.2005, 

4600 m, Cano 2163a (holotype: MUB 20373; isotype: 

USM). 

Description: Plants 1.5–1.7 cm high, growing in dense 

turfs, green to yellowish green. Stems 1.3–1.5 cm, 

branched. Rhizoidal and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. 

Leaves incurved to slightly twisted when dry, 


patent when moist, elliptical to lanceolate, or linear, 

concave to keeled, 2.6–4.7 ¥ 0.9–1.6 mm; apex acute, 

sometimes acuminate, tapering to the apex, not cucullate; 

margins recurved from near the base to the apex 

or upper third, sometimes recurved at one margin and 

plane at the other, entire, sometimes denticulate near 

the apex by projection of papillae, unistratose, unbordered; 

costa 87.5–107.5 mm wide, excurrent in a hairpoint 

(700)1230–1740 mm, yellowish, smooth; ventral 

surface cells of the costa rectangular, not bulging, 

smooth; dorsal surface cells of the costa elongate, 

smooth; in cross-section, semicircular, with two guide 

cells in one layer, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, 

band of dorsal stereids semicircular, with three 

to four stereid rows, hydroids developed, ventral 

surface cells rounded to oblate, 12.5–15 ¥ 12.5–15 mm, 

disposed in one layer, dorsal surface cells differentiated; 

upper laminal cells hexagonal-quadrate 

to rounded, 15–30 ¥ 15–20 mm, thin- to slightly 

thick-walled, not collenchymatous, smooth, upper 

external marginal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

12.5–27.5 ¥ 12.5–17.5 mm (length/width ratio, 1–1.8); 

middle laminal cells rectangular to hexagonal, 32.5– 

50 ¥ 15–22.5 mm, thin- or slightly thick-walled, not or 

slightly collenchymatous, smooth, middle external 

marginal cells oblate, quadrate or rectangular, 12.5– 

15 ¥ 12.5–20 mm (length/width ratio, 0.8–1), slightly 

thick-walled, smooth, middle internal marginal cells 

rectangular to oblate, 12.5–27.5 ¥ 12.5–20 mm (length/ 

width ratio, 0.6–1.3), slightly thick-walled, smooth; 

basal laminal cells rectangular, inflated, 22.5– 

87.5 ¥ 20–27.5 mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

smooth, basal external marginal cells rectangular, 

27–75 ¥ 12.5–17.5 mm (length/width ratio, 1.8–5), 

thin-walled, smooth. Autoecious. Perichaetial leaves 

undifferentiated, not sheathing at base, 2.7–3.9 ¥ 0.6– 

0.9 mm. Seta erect, sometimes curved, 8–1 ¥ 0.16– 

0.23 mm, twisted to the right above and slightly to the 

left below, yellowish to reddish brown. Capsule erect, 

stegocarpous, exerted; theca cylindrical, 2.1–2.5 ¥ 0.8– 

0.9 mm, orange to reddish brown; exothecial cells 

rectangular, 50–137.5 ¥ 20–30 mm, slightly thickwalled; 

annulus of vesiculose cells; peristome of 32 

filamentous and papillose teeth, sometimes anastomosed 

at base, less than one turn spirally twisted, 

450–660 mm long, yellowish; basal membrane 

80–100 mm long. Operculum conical, 0.8–1 mm long, 

not systylious, with spirally twisted cells. Calyptra 

cucullate, 4.5–4.9 mm long, yellowish brown. Spores 

spherical, 15–20 mm in diameter, granulate, light 

brown. Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow. 

Habitat: Soil under volcanic rock in a rocky open 

formation with spots of Azorella Lam., Nototriche 

Turcz., and Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.; 4600– 

4900 m. 



Figure 11. Drawings of Tortula arequipensis (from Cano 2163b, MUB). A, habit; B, leaf; C, leaf apex; D, basal laminal 

cells; E, middle marginal cells; F, cross-section of the leaf at middle; G, cross-section of the stem; H, capsule; I, peristome. 

Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 0.5 mm; C, 90 mm; D, E, 35 mm; F, G, 55 mm; H, 0.7 mm; I, 160 mm. 


Distribution: Peru. 

Additional specimen studied: PERU. AREQUIPA: 

Nevado Huarancante, 15°44′44″S, 71°34′34″W, 

3.iv.2005, Cano 2213 (MUB 20753, USM). 

Notes: Tortula arequipensis is characterized by long 

leaves, with a yellowish hair-point, upper and middle 

laminal cells 15–22.5 mm wide, smooth, and peristome 

with a short basal membrane. It is close to Tortula 

mucronifolia Schwägr., a species known from Europe, 

temperate Asia, North Africa, North America, Mexico, 

and New Zealand. Both species share the shape and 

size of the leaf, usually smooth laminal cells, size of 

the capsule, spores, and peristome, but T. arequipensis 

has a longer yellowish hair-point [(700)1230– 

1740 mm] than T. mucronifolia (130–500 mm) and a 

shorter basal membrane of the peristome (80– 

100 mm) than T. mucronifolia (380–900 mm). The high 

basal membrane of the peristome, which forms a tube 

above the mouth of the urn, is a distinctive character 

of T. mucronifolia. We have studied some Arctic specimens 

of T. mucronifolia with a shorter basal membrane 

of the peristome. However, in these cases, 

whole plants are smaller than the typical form 

(reduced leaves, seta, and peristomes), being dwarfed 

forms of T. mucronifolia. This peculiarity was also 

observed by Steere (1940). In well-developed plants, 

no material of T. mucronifolia with a shorter basal 

membrane has been found (Cano et al., 2005), and the 

two Peruvian specimens of T. araquipensis show the 

same diagnostic characters. 

3. TORTULA ATROVIRENS (TURNER EX SM.) LINDB., 

ÖFVERS. FÖRH. KONGL. SVENSKA VETENSK.-AKAD. 

21: 236. 1864 (FIGS 20–28) 

Grimmia atrovirens Turner ex Sm., Engl. Bot. 28: 

2015. 1809. Ind. loc.: ‘sent by the Rev. H. Davies from 

North Wales, and grew on the ground in broad 

patches’. Type: [Great Britain] ‘Anglesea’ 1800, Davies 

s.n. [lectotype designated by Cano & Gallego (2003): 

BM!]. 

Tortula minima Herzog, Biblioth. Bot. 87: 46, 

fig. 13e–i. 1916, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Auf Erde zwischen 

Choro u. Cocapata, c. 3500 m, No. 4170’. Type: 

[Bolivia] ‘Zwischen Choro und Cocapata’ 3500 m, 

viii.1911, Herzog 4170 (holotype: JE!; isotype: PC!). 

Tortula atrovirens var. brevifolia Thér., Revista 

Chilena Hist. Nat. 25: 296. 1921, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: 

‘Playa Ancha (Valparaíso), sur la terre, c. fr. (Amb. 

Buriel; 1915, h. Costes, n. 78 et 81)’. Type: [Chile] 

‘Playa Ancha (Valparaiso)’, 1915, Buriel 78/81 (holotype: 

PC!). 


Description: Plants 0.2–0.5 cm high, growing in loose 

or dense turfs, green-olive to brownish. Stems 

(0.05)0.1–0.3 cm high, simple or branched. Rhizoidal 

and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. Leaves 

regularly spirally twisted when dry, erect-patent to 

patent when moist, lingulate to oblong-lingulate, 

obovate, sometimes elliptical, strongly concave, 

(0.9)1.2–1.9(2.4) ¥ 0.4–0.6 mm; apex obtuse to acute, 

occasionally apiculate, up to 37.5 mm long, cucullate 

or not; margins strongly recurved to revolute from 

near the base to the apex, entire or papillosecrenulate 

from the apex to middle or in the upper 

third, unistratose, usually bordered by zero to six 

differentiated cell rows, forming a marginal border; 

costa (50)62.5–86.8(109) mm wide, usually percurrent 

or excurrent in a mucro, brownish, 20–370 mm, 

smooth; ventral surface cells of the costa rounded, 

bulging, papillose; dorsal surface cells of the costa 

elongate, smooth, rarely slightly papillose; in crosssection, 

circular to semicircular, with two to five guide 

cells in one layer, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, 

band of dorsal stereids usually oval, with 

2–5(8) stereid rows, hydroids developed, ventral 

surface cells rounded to rectangular, 20–32.5 ¥ 12.5– 

17.5 mm, disposed in one to two layers, dorsal surface 

cells usually differentiated, smooth; upper laminal 

cells quadrate to rectangular, occasionally oblate or 

hexagonal, 10–12.5(15) ¥ (7.5)10–12.5(15) mm, thinto 

slightly thick-walled, not collenchymatous, with 

two to six bifurcate papillae, more rarely simple 

(1.5)2.5 mm high, upper external marginal cells oblate 

to rounded-quadrate, sometimes rectangular or 

quadrate, 7.5–10 ¥ (7.5)10–12.5(15) mm (length/width 

ratio, 0.6–1.3); middle laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

10–15 ¥ (7.5)10–12.5 mm, thin-walled, not 

collenchymatous, with two to six simple or bifurcate 

papillae, 2.5 mm high, middle external marginal 

cells oblate to quadrate, (5)7.5–12.5 ¥ (7.5)10–15 mm 

[length/width ratio, (0.3)0.6–1], usually slightly thickwalled, 

smooth, middle internal marginal cells oblate 

to rounded, rarely rectangular or quadrate, (7.5)10– 

12.5 ¥ (7.5)10–15 mm [length/width ratio, (0.5)0.7– 

1.3], thin- to slightly thick-walled, smooth; basal 

laminal cells rectangular, sometimes oblate, inflated 

or not, 15–55 ¥ (12.5)15–25(27.5) mm, thin-walled, not 

collenchymatous, smooth, basal external marginal 

cells quadrate to rectangular, (15)20–30 ¥ 12.5–20 mm 

[length/width ratio, 1–1.9(2.4)], thin- to slightly thickwalled 

transversally, smooth. Autoecious. Perichaetial 

leaves undifferentiated, rarely weakly differentiated, 

with the leaf margins less recurved than vegetative 

leaves and a longer mucro, not sheathing at base, 

1.2–1.5 ¥ 0.4–0.7 mm. Seta erect, (1.8)3–5(6.3) ¥ 0.08– 

0.1 mm, orange to yellowish brown, twisted to the 

right above and slightly to the left below. Capsule 

erect, stegocarpous, exerted; theca ovoid-cylindrical 




to ovoid or elliptical, 0.1–1.8 ¥ 0.5–0.6 mm, orange 

to brownish; exothecial cells rectangular, 27.5– 

87.5 ¥ 17.5–25 mm, usually thick-walled; annulus of 

vesiculose cells; peristome of 16 filamentous to 

plane and papillose teeth, irregularly divided below, 

sometimes anastomosed, straight to slightly spirally 

twisted, 62.5–140 mm long, yellowish to orange; basal 

membrane 30–87.5 mm long. Operculum conical, 

0.39 mm long, not systylious, with straight to slightly 

spirally twisted cells. Calyptra cucullate, c. 1.75 mm 

long, yellowish brown. Spores spherical, 17.5–20 mm 

in diameter, granulate to vermiculate, light brown. 

Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow with red spots. 

Illustrations: Cano (2006: 164); Magill (1981: 211 as 

Desmatodon convolutus (Brid.) Grout); Mishler (1994: 

358); Zander (1993: 221). 

Habitat: Bare soils and crevices of rocks with accumulated 

soil; 0–3500 m. 

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay. 

Also known from Europe (Hill et al., 2006), temperate 

Asia (Kürschner, 2000; Li et al., 2001), North America 

(Steere, 1939), Mexico (Mishler, 1994), Africa (Magill, 

1981; O’Shea, 2003), Australia (Streimann & Klazenga, 

2002), and New Zealand (Fife, 1995). 

Representative specimens studied: ARGENTINA. 

CÓRDOBA: Unquillo-versus río Ceballos, 2.v.1931, 

Hosseus 400 (FH, M, PC). CHUBUT: xi.1895, Dusén 

s.n. (S). Mendoza: Portezuelo de Rahué, ii.1888, 

Kuntze 6042a (S B103854). SALTA: south of Cafayate, 

3.xii.1960, Steere 60-114b (NY). CHILE. REGIÓN II 

(ANTOFAGASTA): Paposo, Quebrada Guanillos, Aguada 

Perales, sector de los tranques, 12.xi.1972, Mahú 

11421 (MO). REGIÓN IV (COQUIMBO): pr. Choros, 

12.xi.2001, Cano 144 (MUB 20844). REGIÓN V(VAL- 

PARAÍSO): Valparaíso 1940, Schwabe s.n. (JE). REGIÓN 

METROPOLITANA DE SANTIAGO: Baños de Colina, 

8.ix.2001, Cano 27 (MUB 20842). REGIÓN VI 

(MAULE): pr. Constitución, 14.xii.2001, Cano 409 

(MUB 18228). URUGUAY. MONTEVIDEO: Santiago 

Vázquez 1927, Herter 843 (NY). 

Notes: Tortula atrovirens is characterized by lingulate 

to oblong-lingulate leaves, mucronate apex, 

recurved to revolute margins from near the base to 

the apex, and strongly developed ventral surface cells 

of the costa. Some material studied has costa with 


two to three dorsal stereid layers and with ventral 

surface cells of the costa disposed in one to two layers, 

which is similar to specimens from Morocco and the 

Canary Islands identified as Crossidium davidai 

Catches. Other samples (Cano 409) show a long 

mucro which, in the perichaetial leaves, is even a 

short hair-point. Until new collections are carried out 

in the studied area, these specimens are included in 

the variation shown by T. atrovirens. 

In the studied area, this species was reported from 

central Argentina, Uruguay, and central Chile. After 

this study, the range of this species was extended to 

the Neotropics (Bolivia, and tropical areas of Argentina 

and Chile). 

Tortula minima was described by Herzog (1916) 

from a collection from Bolivia. After study of the type 

material, we conclude that there are no significant 


T. atrovirens, and so it is regarded as synonymous 

with the latter species. 

The type study of T. atrovirens var. brevifolia has 

shown that its differential characters are within the 

usual range of variation of T. atrovirens, and it is 

considered to be synonymous with the latter species. 

Zander (1993) considered Didymodon schimperi 

(Mont.) Broth. (Trichostomum schimperi Mont., Ann. 

Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 4: 109. 1845) as synonymous 

with T. atrovirens. After studying the original material 

of Trichostomum schimperi [‘Chile, Racangua’ 

1828, Bertero s.n. (PC!)], it does not correspond to any 

species of Tortula. Trichostomum schimperi has lingulate 

leaves, recurved margins, rounded apex, upper 

and middle laminal cells papillose, ventral surface of 

the costa with elongated cells on the upper half of the 

leaf, absence of hydroids, yellowish orange leaf colour 

reaction with KOH, and peristome of 16 cleft, irregular 

and short teeth. In addition, it shows teratological 

axillary hairs, rare structures described in some 

species of Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa from 

Arkansas in the USA (Allen, 1992), which have not 

been detected in the European, Asiatic, and North 

African specimens of Didymodon tophaceus (Jiménez 

et al., 2005). Therefore, we have concluded that Trichostomum 

schimperi is a badly preserved specimen 

of Didymodon tophaceus. 

4. TORTULA CERNUA (HUEBENER) LINDB., MUSCI 

SCAND.: 20. 1879 (FIGS 29–37) 

Desmatodon cernuus Huebener, Muscol. Germ.: 117. 

1833. Ind. loc.: ‘Diese ausgezeichnete Art wurde vom 

� 

Figures 12–19. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 12 – 15, 18, 19) and light micrographs (Figs 16, 17) of Tortula 

arequipensis (from Cano 2163b, MUB). Fig. 12. Dorsal surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 13. Ventral surface cells of the leaf 

costa at middle. Fig. 14. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 15. Middle laminal cells. Fig. 16. Cross-section of the costa 

at midleaf. Fig. 17. Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 18. Peristome. Fig. 19. Spore. 




Prof. Treviranus, welcher sie mir gütigst ertheilt, 

im südlichen Tyrol auf dem Schleeherngebirge im 

Sommer 1826 entdeckt’. Type: ‘[Pap Schernitz] in 

Tyrol’, Treviranus s.n. (lectotype designated here: 

BM-Schimper!). 

Desmatodon argentinicus Broth., Ark. Bot. 15(6): 5. 

1918. Tortula argentinica (Broth.) R.H. Zander, Bull. 

Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 32: 222. 1993, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: 

‘Argentina: prov. Jujuy, Laguna colorada (in puna) 

loco graminoso subhumido, c. 3900 m s. m. (n. 55)’. 

Type: ‘Argentina: prov. Jujuy, Laguna colorada’, 

3900 m, 20.x.1901, Fries 55 (holotype: H-BR 1131 11!; 

isotypes: PC!, S B103432!). 


Figures 20–27. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 21 – 23, 26, 27) and light micrographs (Figs 20, 24, 25) of Tortula 

atrovirens (from Cano 27, MUB). Fig. 20. Leaf. Fig. 21. Ventral surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 22. Middle marginal cells. 

Fig. 23. Middle laminal cells. Fig. 24. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 25. Cross-section of the middle marginal 

cells of the leaf. Fig. 26. Peristome. Fig. 27. Spore. 

� 

Figure 28. Distribution of Tortula atrovirens (�) and T. vahliana (?) in South America. Inexact locality of T. vahliana in 

Peru is marked with a question mark. 


turfs, yellowish. Stems 0.3–0.4 cm, simple. Rhizoidal 

and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. Leaves erect, 

flexuose when dry, patent to spreading when moist, 

oblong to obovate or spathulate, flat, 1.6–2.4 ¥ 0.5– 

0.9 mm; apex obtuse to acute, not cucullate; margins 

plane above, recurved in the basal third or from the 

base to the middle or upper third, entire, in some 

leaves slightly dentate near the apex, unistratose to 

bistratose in the marginal row, bordered by 2(3) differentiated 

cell rows, forming a marginal border; 

costa 50–67.5 mm wide, percurrent to excurrent in an 

apiculus, yellowish, 260 mm, smooth; ventral surface 




Figures 29–36. Light micrographs of Tortula cernua (from Fries 55, PC). Fig. 29. Leaf. Fig. 30. Ventral surface of the leaf 

apex. Fig. 31. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 32. Ventral surface cells of the leaf costa at middle. Fig. 33. 

Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 34. Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 35. Middle laminal 

cells. Fig. 36. Peristome and spores. 

� 

Figure 37. Distribution of Tortula cernua (�) and T. platyphylla (�) in South America. 

cells of the costa rectangular, not bulging, smooth; 

dorsal surface cells of the costa linear, smooth; in 

cross-section, semicircular, with two guide cells in one 

layer, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, band 

of dorsal stereids semicircular, with one to two substereids, 

hydroids scarcely developed, ventral surface 

cells quadrate, 12.5–15 ¥ 17.5–20 mm, disposed in one 

layer, dorsal surface cells scarcely differentiated; 

upper laminal cells hexagonal, quadrate or rectangular, 

20–55 ¥ 20–27.5 mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

smooth, upper external marginal cells 

rectangular to rhomboidal, 15–32.5 ¥ 7.5–15 mm 

(length/width ratio, 1–4.3); middle laminal cells rect- 


angular to hexagonal, sometimes slightly inflated, 

37.5–55 ¥ 20–27.5 mm, thin-walled, not or scarcely 

collenchymatous, smooth, middle external marginal 

cells linear to long-rectangular, 67–100 ¥ 2.5–10 mm 

(length/width ratio, 7.5–40), slightly thick-walled, 

smooth, middle internal marginal cells linear to rectangular, 

45–50 ¥ 10–15 mm (length/width ratio, 3–5), 

slightly thick-walled, smooth; basal laminal cells rectangular, 

inflated, 40–87.5 ¥ 30–55 mm, thin-walled, 

not collenchymatous, smooth, basal external marginal 

cells long-rectangular to rectangular, 87.5–117.5 ¥ 

12.5–15 mm (length/width ratio, 5.8–9.4), thin-walled, 

smooth. Monoecious (autoecious). Perichaetial leaves 



Figures 38–45. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 38–41, 45) and light micrographs (Figs 42–44) of Tortula diaguita 

(from Cano 187a, MUB). Fig. 38. Leaf. Fig. 39. Dorsal surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 40. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. 

Fig. 41. Ventral surface cells of the costa and laminal cells at middle. Fig. 42. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 43. 

Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 44. Peristome. Fig. 45. Spore. 

� 

usually undifferentiated, not sheathing at base, 

2.6 ¥ 0.6 mm. Seta slightly flexuose, 9.7–14.5 ¥ 0.15– 

0.18 mm, slightly twisted to the right above and to 

the left below, brownish. Capsule horizontal or cernuous, 

stegocarpous, exerted; theca ovoid-cylindrical, 

1.1–1.6 ¥ 0.7–0.8 mm, brownish; exothecial cells 

quadrate to rectangular, 32.5–62.5 ¥ 20–32.5 mm, 

slightly thick-walled; annulus of rounded cells; peristome 

of 16 plane and slightly papillose teeth, sometimes 

divided into two to three linear prongs, often 

anastomosed below, straight, 180–200 mm long, yellowish 

brown, basal membrane 30–50 mm long. Operculum 

conical, 0.5–0.6 mm long, not systylious, with 

cells in straight rows. Calyptra not seen. Spores 

spherical, 30–32.5 mm in diameter, verrucose, brownish. 

Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow. 

Illustrations: Crum & Anderson (1981: 379 as Desmatodon 

cernuus); Zander (1993: 221). 

Habitat: Soil in puna formation; 3900 m. 

Distribution: Argentina. Also known from Europe 

(Hill et al., 2006), North America (Crum & Anderson, 

1981), and temperate Asia (Li et al., 2001). 

Notes: According to Stafleu & Cowan (1979), the 

original herbarium of Hübener in LZ was destroyed, 

but there is material of this author housed at BM, FB, 

HEID, and STR. We have located one syntype of 

Desmatodon cernuus at Schimper herbarium in BM, 

which is chosen as the lectotype. 

Desmatodon argentinicus was described by Brotherus 

(1918) from a specimen collected by R. E. Fries 

in the Andean north of Argentina. The type material 

shows leaves with smooth cells, upper and middle 

external marginal cells of the leaf linear and disposed 

in one to two layers, which form a border, and a 

cernuous or horizontal capsule, with short and 

straight peristome teeth. We have not found significantly 

different characters between D. argentinicus 

and the type material of T. cernua. The only differential 

character is the smooth laminal cells in D. argentinicus. 

In the protologue, Brotherus (1918) also 

mentioned: ‘species D. cernuo (Hüb.) Bryol. eur. 

affinis, sed foliis laxe reticulatis cellulis laevissimis 

jam dignoscenda’. However, the presence or absence 

of papillae in the laminal cells seems to be a variable 

character in this species (Crum & Anderson, 1981), 

and D. argentinicus is similar to other North Ameri- 

can collections studied of T. cernua. Therefore, D. argentinicus 

is here proposed as a new synonym of 

T. cernua. Moreover, T. cernua is newly reported for 

South America. 

5. TORTULA DIAGUITA (R.H.ZANDER &MAHÚ) 

M.J.CANO & M.T.GALLEGO, COMB. NOV. 

(FIGS 38–46) 

Hennediella diaguita R.H. Zander & Mahú, Bryologist 

102: 349, figs 1–11. 1999. Ind. loc.: ‘Chile. Prov. De 

Limari. Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, La Escondida, 

matorral of Trichocereus, Eriocyse and Caesalpinia, 

on soil, 270 m, Mahú 21946, 10 September 1986’. 

Type: ‘Chile. Coquimbo (Región IV): Limari, Parque 

Nacional Fray Jorge, La Escondida’, 270 m, 

10.ix.1986, Mahú 21946 (holotype: MO!). 


turfs or gregarious, yellowish green. Stems 0.05– 

0.1 cm, simple or branched. Rhizoidal and protonematic 

gemmae undeveloped. Leaves patent-incurved 

when dry, patent to spreading when moist, widely 

ovate to elliptical or orbicular, concave, (0.7)0.9– 

1.3 ¥ 0.7–1.1 mm; apex rounded to obtuse, sometimes 

cucullate; margins plane, entire, unistratose, bordered 

by two to five differentiated cell rows, forming 

a marginal border; costa 30–40 mm wide, percurrent; 

ventral surface cells of the costa rounded, bulging, 

papillose; dorsal surface cells of the costa rectangular 

to linear, smooth; in cross-section, semicircular, 

with two guide cells in one layer, band of ventral 

stereids undifferentiated, band of dorsal stereids 

usually oval, with two to three stereid rows, hydroids 

developed, ventral surface cells rounded, (15)22.5– 

25 ¥ (12.5)17.5–20 mm, disposed in one to two layers, 

dorsal surface cells usually differentiated; upper 

laminal cells quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular, 

15–17.5 ¥ 10–15 mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

with four to seven bifurcate papillae, 2.5 mm 

high, upper external marginal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

10–17.5 ¥ 7.5–10 mm (length/width ratio, 

1–1.8); middle laminal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

12.5–25 ¥ 10–15 mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

with four to six bifurcate papillae, 2.5 mm 

high, middle external marginal cells quadrate to 

rectangular, 10–17.5 ¥ 7.5–10 mm (length/width ratio, 

1–2.3), thick-walled, sometimes only slightly, smooth, 





Figure 46. Distribution of Tortula diaguita (�), T. hoppeana (�), and T. truncata (�) in South America. 

middle internal marginal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

10–20 ¥ 7.5–15 mm (length/width ratio, 1–2.7), 

slightly thick-walled, with four to six simple or 

bifurcate papillae; basal laminal cells rectangular, 

inflated or not, 37.5–80 ¥ 17.5–22.5 mm, usually 

thin-walled, not collenchymatous, smooth, basal 

external marginal cells quadrate to rectangular, 

15–45 ¥ 15–17.5 mm (length/width ratio, 1–2.6), thinwalled, 

sometimes transversally slightly thick-walled, 

smooth. Synoecious or paroecious. Perichaetial leaves 

undifferentiated, sometimes with a few teeth at the 

apex, not sheathing at base, 1.1–1.4 ¥ 0.7–0.9 mm. 

Seta erect, 3.5–4.3 ¥ 0.09–0.1 mm, twisted to the 

right above and sometimes slightly to the left below, 

yellowish to reddish brown. Capsule erect, stegocarpous, 

exerted; theca ovoid-cylindrical, 1–1.2 ¥ 0.4– 

0.5 mm, reddish brown; exothecial cells rectangular, 

75–37.5 ¥ 12.5–20 mm, thin-walled; annulus of vesiculose 

cells; peristome of 16 filamentous and papillose 

teeth, split below, slightly spirally twisted less than 

one turn, c. 632.5 mm long, yellowish, basal membrane 

c. 25 mm long. Operculum conical, c. 0.4 mm 

long, not systylious, with spirally twisted cells. Calyptra 

cucullate, 1.5–1.8 mm long, brownish yellow. 

Spores spherical, 13–15 mm in diameter, granulate, 

yellowish. Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow. 

Illustrations: Zander & Mahú (1999: 350 as Hennediella 

diaguita). 

Habitat: Bare soils in Cactaceae formations with 

bushes of Puya Molina, Adesmia DC., Senecio brunonianus 

Hook. & Arn., Caesalpinia L., Bridgesia incisifolia 

Bert. ex Cambess., or Haplopappus hirtellus 

DC.; 210–750 m. 

Distribution: Chile. 


Additional specimens studied: CHILE. REGIÓN IV 

(COQUIMBO): pr. Choros, 12.xi.2001, Cano 142b (MUB 

16411); Hurtado, 15.xi.2001, Cano 187a (MUB 

20837). 

Notes: Zander & Mahú (1999) placed this species in 

the genus Hennediella because of the red colour of the 

KOH leaf reaction (which it was only possible to 

observe after boiling the leaves on a slide in KOH), 

the weak denticulation in some of the leaves, especially 

the perichaetial, the nearly flat superficial cell 

walls of the distal lamina, the leaf border of thicker 

walled, smooth cells, and the nearly round dorsal 

stereid band. In addition, these authors stated that, 

although some Tortula species have differentiated 

margins and reddish coloration with KOH, the latter 

restricted to the basal cells, species with cucullate 

leaves are found only in Hennediella. According to 

Zander & Mahú (1999), other diagnostic characters of 

this species are the strongly concave orbicular to 

oblong-elliptical leaves, cucullate apex in most of the 

leaves, peristome of filamentous teeth, and slightly 

twisted and bulging ventral costa surface. 

Two new collections of this species from Coquimbo 

have been obtained in this study [Cano 142b, 187a]. 

In these collections, the marginal cells of the leaves 

are differentiated, but are usually quadrate or shortrectangular 

and similar to those of other Tortula 

species studied. Other characters of H. diaguita 

which do not match with Hennediella are the deep 

yellow leaf colour with KOH, the rounded and bulging 

ventral costa surface, which varies from one to two 

layers, and the dorsal band of stereids oval in some 

cross-sections. These characters are closer to the 

genus Crossidium. We tentatively placed this species 

in the genus Tortula, considering this genus in a wide 

sense which could include species presently in Crossidium. 

6. TORTULA HOPPEANA (SCHULTZ) OCHYRA, 

BRYOLOGIST 107: 499. 2004 (FIGS 46–54) 

Trichostomum hoppeanum Schultz, Syll. Pl. Nov. 2: 

140. 1828. Ind. loc.: ‘Habitat in rupibus editissimis 

Carinthiae (Hopp. et Hornsch.) et in alpibus Salisburg. 

(Funck)’. Type: [Austria] ‘Auf der Pasterze 

bei Glockn.’ [lectotype designated by Ochyra (2004): 

GZU-Hoppe!]. 


turfs, green. Stems 0.3–0.4 cm, usually simple. Rhizoidal 

and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. Leaves 

incurved to spirally twisted in the upper part when 

dry, patent to spreading when moist, ovate to lingulate, 

slightly concave, 2.5–2.7 ¥ 0.7–1.8 mm; apex 

obtuse to acute, not cucullate; margins recurved from 


near the base to usually near the apex, papillosecrenulate, 

unistratose, unbordered; costa 50–80 mm 

wide, excurrent in a hair-point, yellowish, 350– 

607 mm, smooth; ventral surface cells of the costa 

rectangular, not bulging, papillose; dorsal surface 

cells of the costa rectangular, papillose; in crosssection, 

semicircular, with two guide cells in one 

layer, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, band 

of dorsal stereids semicircular, with three stereid 

rows, hydroids developed, ventral surface cells 

rounded, 15–17.5 ¥ 15–20 mm, disposed in one layer, 

dorsal surface cells differentiated; upper laminal cells 

oblate, quadrate to rectangular, 15–20 ¥ 12.5–20 mm, 

thin-walled, not collenchymatous, with three to four 

bifurcate papillae, 2.5 mm high, upper external 

marginal cells oblate, quadrate to rectangular, 12.5– 

17.5 ¥ 10–15 mm (length/width ratio, 0.8–1.8); middle 

laminal cells rectangular, 22.5–30 ¥ 12.5–20 mm, thinwalled, 

not collenchymatous, with four to eight simple 

papillae, 2.5 mm high, middle external marginal cells 

oblate, quadrate or rectangular, 10–22.5 ¥ 12.5 mm 

(length/width ratio, 0.8–1.8), thin-walled, smooth, 

middle internal marginal cells rectangular, 17.5– 

20 ¥ 12.5–15 mm (length/width ratio, 1.33–1.4), thinwalled, 

with four to six simple papillae; basal laminal 

cells rectangular, inflated, 57.5–100 ¥ 32.5–40 mm, 

thin-walled, not collenchymatous, smooth, basal 

external marginal cells rectangular, 52.5–80 ¥ 12.5– 

15 mm (length/width ratio, 3.5–6.4), thin-walled, 

smooth. Autoecious. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated, 

not sheathing at base, 1.9–2 ¥ 0.5–0.6 mm. Seta 

erect, 11–13.5 ¥ 0.12–0.15 mm, twisted to the right 

above and slightly to the left below, yellowish. 

Capsule erect, stegocarpous, exerted; theca cylindrical, 

1.8–1.9 ¥ 0.7–0.8 mm, yellowish brown; exothecial 

cells rectangular, 50–55 ¥ 12.5–22.5 mm, thin- to 

slightly thick-walled; annulus of rounded cells; 

peristome of 16 plane and slightly papillose teeth, 

irregularly divided below, straight, 200–230 mm long, 

yellowish, basal membrane 10–25 mm long, papillose. 

Operculum rostrate, 0.6–0.8 mm long, temporarily 

systylious, with straight to slightly twisted cells 

above. Calyptra not seen. Spores spherical, 17.5– 

20 mm in diameter, verrucose, light brown. Leaf colour 


Illustrations: Cano (2006: 171); Crum & Anderson 

(1981: 377 as Desmatodon latifolius (Hedw.) Brid). 

Distribution: Chile. Also known from Europe (Hill 

et al., 2006), North America (Anderson et al., 1990), 

North Africa (Ros et al., 1999), temperate Asia (Saito, 

1975; Li et al., 2001), tropical Asia (Gangulee, 1969), 

and Antarctica (Ochyra, 2004). 

Habitat: Soil near waterfall; 3500 m. 




Specimen studied: CHILE. REGIÓN METROPOLITANA 

DE SANTIAGO: Mine Disputado de Las Condes, i.1930, 

Costés 1101 (PC). 

Notes: The Chilean specimen has some deviant characters 

with respect to other specimens of T. hoppeana 

studied from southern Europe. Thus, the margins are 

recurved from the base to near the apex in some 

leaves, when they are usually recurved from the base 

to the upper third of the leaf, and the operculum 

temporarily remains attached to the columella, when 

most of the specimens of T. hoppeana have no or only 

a slightly systylious operculum, although this character 

has also been observed in specimens from North 

America and Europe (cf. Crum & Anderson, 1981; 

Nyholm, 1989). The rest of the characters, such as 

ovate to lingulate leaves, papillose laminal cells, 

12.5–20 mm in width, unbordered leaf, and peristome 

of short and straight teeth, are similar to those 

typical of T. hoppeana. 

This species is newly reported from South America. 

7. TORTULA JAFFUELII THÉR., REVISTA CHILENA 

HIST. NAT. 27: 9, PL. 2 FIG. 1. 1923 

(FIGS 10, 55–62) 

Syntrichia jaffuelii (Thér.) R.H. Zander, Bull. Buffalo 

Soc. Nat. Sci. 32: 269. 1993. Ind. loc.: ‘Los Perales de 

Marga-Marga, sur la terre, leg. P. Jaffueli, oct. 1919’. 

Type: ‘Chili, Los Perales de Marga Marga’, ix.1919, 

Jaffuel 23 (holotype: PC!; isotypes: B!, FH!, PC!, W!). 


turfs, light to dark green. Stems 0.2–0.5 cm high, 

branched, with subfloral innovations. Rhizoidal 

gemmae developed, 25–40 mm in diameter, multicellular, 

uni- or multistratose, ovoid to spherical, brownish; 

protonematic gemmae undifferentiated. Leaves 

erect to patent when dry, patent to spreading when 

moist, lingulate, plane, slightly channelled at the 

costa above, 1.2–2.4(3.5) ¥ 0.4–0.5 mm; apex rounded, 

not cucullate; margins recurved irregularly from the 

upper third to below middle, sometimes from below 

apex to upper third or only in one margin, papillosecrenulate, 

unistratose, unbordered; costa 30–75 mm 

wide, ending two to six cells below the apex; ventral 


papillose; dorsal surface cells of the costa elongate, 

papillose; in cross-section, semicircular, with two to 

six guide cells in one to two layers, band of ventral 


Figures 47–54. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 48–50, 53, 54) and light micrographs (Figs 47, 51, 52) of Tortula 

hoppeana (from Costés 1101, PC). Fig. 47. Leaf. Fig. 48. Ventral surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 49. Middle marginal cells. 

Fig. 50. Ventral surface cells of the costa and laminal cells at middle. Fig. 51. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 52. 

Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 53. Peristome. Fig. 54. Spore. 

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stereids undifferentiated, band of dorsal stereids 

semicircular to slightly lunulate, with two to four 

stereid rows, hydroids developed, ventral surface cells 

quadrate to rectangular, 7.5–10 ¥ 5–15 mm, disposed 

in one layer, dorsal surface cells differentiated; upper 

laminal cells quadrate-rounded to rectangular, (5)7.5– 

10 ¥ (5)7.5–10 mm, slightly thick-walled, usually not 

collenchymatous, with four to five bifurcate papillae, 

2.5 mm high, upper external marginal cells oblate to 

rounded, 5(10) ¥ 7.5–10 mm (length/width ratio, 0.5– 

1); middle laminal cells quadrate to rectangular or 

oblate, 5–7.5 ¥ 5–15 mm, slightly thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

with four to seven bifurcate papillae, 

2.5 mm high, middle external marginal cells oblate 

to rectangular, (5)10–12.5 ¥ (5)7.5 mm [length/width 

ratio, 0.7–1.9(2.5)], slightly thick-walled, with four 

to five simple or bifurcate papillae, middle internal 

marginal cells quadrate to rectangular or quadraterounded, 

7.5–12.5 ¥ 7.5 mm (length/width ratio, 

1–1.7), slightly thick-walled, with four to seven 

simple or bifurcate papillae; basal laminal cells 

rectangular, occasionally inflated, 17.5–57.5 ¥ 15– 

22.5 mm, thin- to slightly thick-walled, usually not 

collenchymatous, usually with two to ten simple 

papillae, in the upper part, mainly, on the dorsal side, 

rarely smooth, basal external marginal cells rectangular, 

25–30 ¥ (7.5)10–12.5 mm [length/width ratio, 

2.2–2.5(4)], thin-walled, smooth. Dioecious. Perichaetial 

leaves slightly differentiated, longer and with 

slightly sheathing base, 1.6–2.8 ¥ 0.4–0.8 mm. Seta 

erect, 15–23 ¥ 0.08–0.1 mm, straight or slightly 

twisted to the left, yellowish. Capsule elliptical, stegocarpous, 

exerted; theca, 1.2 ¥ 0.5–0.7 mm, yellowish 

brown; exothecial cells rectangular, 22.5–95 ¥ 22.5– 

30 mm, thin- to slightly thick-walled; annulus of 

vesiculose cells; peristome of 32 filamentous and papillose 

teeth, straight to usually one turn spirally 

twisted, 410–560 mm long, yellowish, basal membrane 

70–75 mm long. Operculum conical, 0.5–0.9 mm long, 

not systylious, with spirally twisted cells. Calyptra 

not seen. Spores spherical, 10–12.5 mm in diameter, 

granulate, yellowish to light brown. Leaf colour reaction 

with KOH yellow. 

Illustration: Thériot (1923). 

Habitat: Soil bank in bushes with Mutisia L.f., Puya, 

Lithraea caustica Hook. & Arn., and Haplopappus 

hirtellus Phil.; 660–1500 m. 




Distribution: Chile. 

Representative specimens studied: CHILE: REGIÓN IV 

(COQUIMBO): Cuesta de Caviolén, 11.xi.2001, Cano 

137b (MUB 29935). REGIÓN METROPOLITANA DE SAN- 

TIAGO: Cerro Bravo, prés de Santiago, 16.vi.1917, 

Bertho 4c (PC). REGIÓN VII (O’HIGGINS): Rancagua, 

mina La Juanita, 8.xii.2001, Cano 320 (MUB 29934). 

Notes: Tortula jaffuelii was described on the basis of 

a specimen from Valparaíso (Chile). In this study, 

we have detected new collections from Coquimbo, 

O’Higgins, and Santiago. In all cases, they show lingulate 

leaves, yellow with KOH, and a cross-section 

similar to that found in Tortula: dorsal and ventral 

surface cells differentiated, band of ventral stereids 

semicircular, and hydroids developed, although, in 

some cross-sections, the ventral band of stereids is 

slightly lunulate. However, the perichaetial leaves are 

long and slightly sheathing at base, the basal cells are 

not strongly differentiated from the distal cells, which 

can be papillose (mainly at the dorsal side of the 

leaf), and usually slightly thick-walled, the marginal 

laminal cells are undifferentiated, and some crosssections 

of the stem seem to show weakly developed 

sclerodermis. This combination of characters is not 

found in Tortula. Possibly because of these deviant 

characters, Zander (1993) transferred this species to 

the genus Syntrichia, although the anatomy of the 

costa and the leaf reaction with KOH are typical of 

the genus Tortula. Therefore, we provisionally placed 

this species in Tortula and await a new evaluation of 

the genus. 

The Chilean T. jaffuelii is similar to material of 

Tortula bogosica (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander studied by 

us from the Canary Islands and South Africa, a 

species which Zander (1993) related to Barbula. Both 

species have the habit of Barbula, with lingulate 

leaves, dorsal surface of the costa usually papillose, 

upper and middle laminal cells small and strongly 

papillose, and the presence of numerous rhizoidal 

gemmae. However, both species can be distinguished 

by the costa (which is usually excurrent in a mucro in 

T. bogosica and ceasing two to six cells below the apex 

in T. jaffuelii), dorsal surface cells of the costa in 

cross-section (usually undifferentiated in T. bogosica 

and well differentiated in T. jaffuelii), and laminal 

cells (usually thin-walled in T. bogosica and slightly 



jaffuelii (Figs 55–60 from Cano 320, MUB; Figs 61, 62 from Cano 137b, MUB). Fig. 55. Leaf. Fig. 56. Ventral surface cells 

of the costa and laminal cells at middle. Fig. 57. Dorsal surface cells of the leaf costa at middle. Fig. 58. Middle marginal 

cells of the leaf. Fig. 59. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 60. Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the 

leaf. Fig. 61. Peristome. Fig. 62. Spore. 

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thick-walled in T. jaffuelii). In addition, T. jaffuelli 

has more strongly differentiated perichaetial leaves 

than the specimens of T. bogosica. 

The protologue of this species indicates that the 

date of collection was October 1919; however, the 

label of the holotype (handwritten ‘type’ by Thériot) 

and isotypes studied shows a different date of collection: 

September 1919. Therefore, it was probably a 

mistake in the publication of Thériot (1923). 

8. TORTULA MURALIS HEDW., SP. MUSC. FROND.: 

123. 1801 (FIGS 63–71) 

Ind. loc.: ‘In muris, tegulis, parietibus ad saxa vulgatissima’. 

Type: [lectotype designated by Guerra, Ros 

& Carrión (1992): G!]. 

Tortula muralis var. aestiva Brid. ex Hedw., Sp. Musc. 

Frond.: 123. 1801. Tortula aestiva (Brid. ex Hedw.) P. 

Beauv., Prodr. Aethéogam.: 91. 1805. Ind. loc.: not 

indicated. Type: not located. 

Barbula muralis var. rupestris Schultz, Nova Acta 

Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 11: 

221. 1823. Ind. loc.: ‘Habitat in muris tegulis, locis 

sabulosis umbrosis omnis Europae; ...Var. b. in 

rupestribus apricis’. Type: not located. 

Barbula muricola Müll. Hal., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 15: 

381. 1857. Tortula muricola (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., J. 

Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 166. 1869. Ind. loc.: ‘Brazilia, ins. 

Sancta Catharina, locis umbrosis ad muros prope 

Desterro, Pabst’. Type: ‘Brazilia, in muris umbrosis 

insulae San. Catharinae’, Pabst s.n. (lectotype designated 

here: S B103653!). 

Barbula annulus Müll. Hal., Linnaea 43: 430. 1882. 

Tortula annulus (Müll. Hal.) Broth. ex Paris, Index 

Bryol., ed. 2, 5: 35. 1906. Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia Buenos- 

Airensis, in arenosis apud Flores & Martio 1880: Prof. 

O. Schnyder’. Type: not located; synonymized by Wijk, 

Margadant & Florschütz (1959). 

Tortula muralis var. longipila Dusén, Ark. Bot. 6(10): 

3. Taf. 1 figs 1–4. 1906, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia 

septentrionalis prope Carmen de Patagones opp. in 

arenosis. . . die vorliegende Varietät ist am Unterlaufe 

des Rio Negro und wohl auch in den benachbarden 

Gebieten allgemein’. Type: ‘Argentina, ad ostium fl. Río 

Negro’, 12.viii.1897, Dusén 818 (lectotype designated 

here: NY!; isolectotypes: E!, O!, PC!). 


turfs, yellowish green. Stems 0.05–0.5 cm, simple or 





muralis (from Deguchi 2867, SGO). Fig. 63. Leaf. Fig. 64. Dorsal surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 65. Middle marginal cells 

of the leaf. Fig. 66. Ventral surface cells of the costa and laminal cells at middle. Fig. 67. Cross-section of the costa at 

midleaf. Fig. 68. Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 69. Peristome. Fig. 70. Spore. 

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Figure 71. Distribution of Tortula muralis (�) in South America. 


Leaves usually spirally twisted, rarely 

incurved when dry, patent to spreading when moist, 

usually lingulate, slightly concave, (1.1)1.6–2.4(3) ¥ 

0.4–0.6 mm; apex rounded to obtuse, not cucullate; 

margins recurved from near the base to the apex, 

papillose-crenulate from the apex to below middle or 

near base, unistratose, sometimes bistratose in the 

marginal row, usually bordered by four to seven differentiated 

cell rows, forming a marginal border; 

costa (40)62.5–87.5 mm wide, excurrent in a hairpoint, 

more rarely in an apiculus, hyaline, sometimes 

yellowish or brownish, (80)102.3–663.5 mm, smooth; 


ventral surface cells of the costa quadrate to 

rectangular, not bulging, papillose; dorsal surface 

cells of the costa elongate, smooth to slightly papillose 

in the upper part; in cross-section, circular to 

semicircular, with 2–6(8) guide cells in one to two 

layers, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated or 

occasionally in one to two layers, band of dorsal 

stereids semicircular, with (2)3–5 stereid rows, 

hydroids developed, ventral surface cells rectangular 

to quadrate, 10–12.5 ¥ 10–12.5 mm, disposed in one 

layer, dorsal surface cells differentiated; upper 

laminal cells quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular, 

(7.5)12.5–15(17.5) ¥ (7.5)10–12.5 mm, thin-walled, not 



collenchymatous, with four to six bifurcate papillae, 

2.5–5 mm high, upper external marginal cells quadrate 

to rectangular, sometimes oblate, (7.5)10–15 ¥ 

7.5–10(15) mm [length/width ratio, (0.3)0.9–1.6(1.7)]; 

middle laminal cells quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular, 

(10)12.5–17.5(20) ¥ 10–12.5(15) mm, thin-walled, 

not collenchymatous, with four to ten bifurcate papillae, 

2.5–5 mm high, middle external marginal cells 

rectangular, sometimes quadrate or oblate, (10)12.5– 

15 ¥ 10–12.5 mm [length/width ratio, (0.8)1–1.3(1.5)], 

thick-walled, sometimes slightly thick-walled, 

smooth or with two to four simple papillae, middle 

internal marginal cells rectangular to quadraterounded, 

rarely oblate, (10)12.5–18.8(20) ¥ (10)12.5– 

15(17.5) mm [length/width ratio, (0.7)0.9–1.3(1.6)], 

usually slightly thick-walled, smooth or with four to 

six bifurcate papillae; basal laminal cells rectangular, 

inflated, 30–53.8(80) ¥ (17.5)20–22.5(25) mm, 

thin-walled, not or slightly collenchymatous, smooth, 

basal external marginal cells rectangular, (20)22.2– 

48.2(57.5) ¥ (10)12.5–22.5(25) mm [length/width ratio, 

1–2.7(4.6)], usually thin-walled, smooth. Autoecious 

or dioecious. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated, 

1.5–2.4 ¥ 0.4–0.5 mm. Seta erect, 9.6–16 ¥ 0.1– 

0.16 mm, twisted to the right above and slightly to 

the left below, reddish brown to yellowish brown. 

Capsule erect, stegocarpous, exerted; theca cylindrical, 

1.5–3 ¥ 0.5–0.7 mm, reddish brown; exothecial 

cells rectangular, (40)47.5–66.3(75) ¥ 12.5–20 mm, 

usually thin-walled; annulus of vesiculose cells; peristome 

of 32 filamentous and papillose teeth, more than 

one turn spirally twisted, 558–900 mm long, orange; 

basal membrane (32.5)41.3–81.3(95) mm long, papillose. 

Operculum conical, 0.9–1.2 mm long, not systylious, 

with spirally twisted cells. Calyptra cucullate, 

3–3.21 mm long, brownish yellow. Spores spherical, 

10–12.5 mm in diameter, granulate to vermiculate, 

yellowish. Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow. 

Illustrations: Cano (2006: 166); Crum & Anderson 

(1981: 398). 

Habitat: On bricks or cement walls, more rarely in 

dry limestone or soil; 0–1500 m. 

Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, 

Uruguay. Also known from Europe (Hill et al., 2006), 

temperate Asia (Saito, 1975; Kürschner, 2000; Li 

et al., 2001), tropical Asia (Tan & Iwatsuki, 1991), 

Africa (O’Shea, 2003), North America (Crum & Anderson, 

1981), Australia (Streimann & Klazenga, 2002), 

and New Zealand (Fife, 1995). 


BUENOS AIRES: vicinity of Buenos Aires, 29.viii.1915, 

Rose 20961 (NY, US). CÓRDOBA: Bell Ville, Los Algar- 

robos, i.1910, Haakon s.n. (O). ENTRE RÍOS: Concepción 

del Uruguay, 22.vi.1880, Niedelen 246 (B). 

SANTA FÉ: Rosario, río Paraná, 28.ix.1910, Haakon 

s.n. (O). BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro, 

Glaziou 6396 (NY). RIO GRANDE DO SUL: Porto 

Alegre, rua dos voluntarios da Patria, 10.x.1897, Reinecket 

& Germak 15 (FH, PC, S B103673). SÃO 

PAULO: Iquape, 1.ix.1901, Schiffner 240 (FH, H, O, S 

B103668). CHILE. REGIÓN V(VALPARAÍSO): Cerro La 

Campana, 17.ix.1972, Mahú 10404 (MO). REGIÓN 

METROPOLITANA DE SANTIAGO: Santiago, Universidad 

Católica, Campus Oriente, 14.vii.1979, Mahú 23225 

(MO). REGIÓN VI (MAULE): Prov. Curicó, aduana Los 

Queñes, frente al retén de carabineros, 18.v.1973, 

Mahú 9345 (MO). REGIÓN VII (O’HIGGINS): Rancagua, 

9.xii.2001, Cano 327 (MUB 15902). REGIÓN 

VIII (BIOBÍO): Concepción, 9.ix.1896, Dusén 179 (E, 

FH, JE, M, NY, O, PC, S). REGIÓN IX (ARAUCANÍA): 

Pucón, 29.xii.2001, Cano 496 (MUB 17943, CONC). 

REGIÓN X(LOS LAGOS): prov. Osorno, around Termas 

Puyehue, east end of Lago Puyehue, Parque Nacional 

Puyehue, 23.xi.1987, Deguchi 2867 (SGO); Chiloé, 

murs de la cathedrale, 1918, P. Cypr. Deltor s.n. (PC). 

PARAGUAY. CENTRAL: San Lorenzo, 24.v.1984, 

Bordas 62 (NY). CORDILLERA: north-east of Caacupé, 

Cerro de Cristo Rey, 6.i.1984, Kuc s.n. (NY).GUAIRÁ: 

Villarrica, 14.xii.1982, Bordas 39 (MO, NY). 

URUGUAY. CANELONES: Las Piedras, xi.1911, Felippone 

635 (PC). CERRO LARGO: Bañado de Medina, 

Alborada de Arrarte, Rosengurtt B8224 (NY, US). 

LAVALLEJA: Villa Serrana, xi.1959, García Zorrón 

1906 (US). MONTEVIDEO: Malvín, 24.vii.1926, Herter 

70533 (FH, MO, RB). RIVERA: Rivera, Escuela 

Agraria, i.1960, García Zorrón 2109 (US). ROCHA: 

Rocha, parque fortaleza de Santa Teresa, ii.1960, 

García Zorrón 2333 (US). SAN JOSÉ: Playa Pascual, 

22.xii.1946, Castellanos 8575 (FH). 

Notes: In the Neotropics, T. muralis was reported by 

Ayala (1970) from three specimens collected in 

‘Lomas’ of Trujillo (Peru) and deposited at HUT. We 

have not been able to study these samples, but we 

found duplicates of them at US herbarium. After 

studying the material, it does not correspond to any 

species of Tortula, and the specimens proved to be 

Syntrichia limensis (R.S. Williams) R.H. Zander. 

Therefore, the report of T. muralis should be excluded 

from the Neotropics. 

We have not been able to locate the type material of 

T. annulus, but the original description suggests its 

resemblance to T. muralis, with which it was synonymized 

by Wijk et al. (1959). 

By contrast, we have found several syntypes of 

T. muralis var. longipila distributed in different herbaria 

(E, NY, O, PC) as Tortula longipila Dusén from 

Rio Negro. The specimen of NY is here formally 


designated as the lectotype of this name. According to 

the protologue, this taxon can be distinguished from 

var. muralis by a long hair-point and a capsule with 

the annulus disposed in only one row. In addition, the 

original material shows the upper and middle laminal 

cells with papillae of 5 mm high, when T. muralis 

usually has papillae of 2.5 mm high. However, all of 

these characters can be included in the variability of 

T. muralis, and therefore this taxon is treated here as 

a synonym of T. muralis. 

9. TORTULA PLATYPHYLLA MITT., J. LINN. SOC., 

BOT. 12: 167. 1869 (FIGS 37, 72–79) 

Desmatodon amblyophyllus Mont., Ann. Sci. Nat., 

Bot., sér. 3, 4: 108. 1845. Trichostomum amblyophyllum 

(Mont.) Müll. Hal., Syn. Musc. Frond. 1: 592. 

1849. Tortula amblyophylla (Mont.) Thér., nom. illeg. 

Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève 12: 5. 1919 [non Tortula 

amblyophylla (Hook.) Mitt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 

155. 1869]. Ind. loc.: ‘Chili, ad terram prope Valparaiso 

et S. Jago, Gay’. Type: [Chile] ‘S. Jago’, 

v.18[two last numbers illegible], Gay s.n. (lectotype 

designated here: PC!). 

Barbula berteroana Müll. Hal., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 

20: 349. 1862. Tortula berteroana (Müll. Hal.) Broth. 

ex Paris, Index Bryol., ed. 2, 5: 37. 1906, nom. illeg. 

(non Tortula berteroana Mitt. nom. illeg. J. Linn. Soc., 

Bot. 12: 154. 1869), syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Chile, prope 

Quillotam: Bertero Sept 1829’. Type: ‘Chiles, Quillota’ 

1829, Bertero s.n. (lectotype designated here: PC!). 

Barbula graminicolor ssp. subgraminicolor Thér., 

Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 21: 7. 1917. Ind. loc.: ‘Los 

Perales de Marga-Marga; sur le mortier des murs’. 

Type: ‘Chili, Los Perales de Marga-Marga, prés Valparaiso’, 

vii.1915, Costés s.n. (holotype: PC!). 

Tortula flavipes Broth., Acta Horti Gothob. 1: 192. 

1924, nom. illeg., syn. nov. [non Tortula flavipes (Bruch 

& Schimp.) Wilson, Bryol. Brit. 128. 1855]. Ind. loc.: 

‘Chile: Prov. Coquimbo, Estancia Frai Jorge; ad terram 

(117)’. Type: [Chile] ‘Coquimbo’ viii.1917, Skottsberg 

s.n. (holotype: H-BR 4168 006!; isotype: PC!). 

Tortula purpureo-velutina Herzog, Rev. Bryol. 

Lichénol. 23: 73. 1954, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Mittelchile: 

Viña Concon, Strandweg, leg. G. H. Schwage, n°176’. 

Type: ‘Mittelchile, bei Viña-Concon’, 11.ii.1941, 

Schwabe 176 (holotype: JE!). 


to loose turfs, yellowish green. Stems 0.05–0.5 cm 

high, simple or branched. Rhizoidal gemmae undeveloped; 

protonematic gemmae occasionally differentiated. 

Leaves incurved to slightly twisted in the upper 

part when dry, patent to spreading when moist, 

lingulate to lingulate-ovate, sometimes constricted 

at middle, slightly concave distally, 1.3–2.6 ¥ 0.3– 


0.6 mm; apex rounded, sometimes obtuse, apiculate 

or not, not cucullate; margins recurved from below 

middle to near apex, papillose-crenulate from the apex 

to below middle, unistratose, sometimes the marginal 

row bistratose, bordered by four to seven differentiated 

cell rows, forming an intramarginal border; costa 

(32.5)50–67.5(92.5) mm wide, percurrent, sometimes 

excurrent in an apiculus or hair-point, brownish, 

60–237.5 mm, smooth; ventral surface cells of the costa 

rectangular to quadrate, not bulging, papillose; dorsal 

surface cells of the costa linear to long-rectangular, 

papillose, sometimes smooth; in cross-section, circular 

to semicircular, with 2–4(7) guide cells in one to two 

layers, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, band 

of dorsal stereids semicircular, with two to four stereid 

rows, sometimes substereids, hydroids developed, 

ventral surface cells quadrate to rectangular, (7.5)10– 

12.5 ¥ (5)10–12.5(15) mm, disposed in one layer, dorsal 

surface cells usually differentiated; upper laminal 

cells quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular, 7.5–10(12.5) 

¥ (5)7.5–10(12.5) mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, 

with 3–6(10) bifurcate papillae, 2.5 mm high, 

upper external marginal cells quadrate to rectangular 

or oblate, (5)7.5–12.5(15) ¥ 5–10(12.5) mm [length/ 

width ratio, (0.5)1–2(2.5)]; middle laminal cells rectangular 

to quadrate-hexagonal, 10–15(17.5) ¥ (5)7.5– 

10(12.5) mm, thin-walled, not collenchymatous, with 

five to ten bifurcate papillae, 2.5 mm high, middle 

external marginal cells quadrate to rectangular or 

oblate, (5)7.5–10(20) ¥ (5)7.5–10(12.5) mm [length/ 

width ratio, (0.4)0.8–1.5(2.8)], thin- to slightly thickwalled, 

with two to eight simple papillae, middle 

internal marginal cells rectangular, rarely oblate, 

linear or quadrate, (10)17.5–30 ¥ 7.5–10(15) mm 

[length/width ratio, (0.8)1.8–3.6(4)], usually slightly 

thick-walled, smooth or with one to six simple papillae; 

basal laminal cells rectangular, usually inflated, 

50–65(100) ¥ (15)20–27.5(30) mm, thin-walled, usually 

not collenchymatous, smooth, basal external marginal 

cells usually rectangular, (20)25–50(57.5) ¥ (7.5)12.5– 

20(30) mm [length/width ratio, (1)1.5–2.9(4)], thinwalled, 

rarely transversally thick-walled, smooth. 

Dioecious. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated, not 

sheathing at base, 2–2.2 ¥ 0.6–0.8 mm. Seta erect, 

(6)10–12(15) ¥ 0.11–0.12 mm, twisted to the right 

above and slightly to the left below, yellowish brown 

to orange. Capsule erect, stegocarpous, exerted; 

theca usually ovoid-cylindrical, (1.2)1.5–1.9(2) ¥ 0.6– 

0.8 mm, yellowish brown to reddish brown; exothecial 

cells rectangular, (25)45–62.5(107.5) ¥ (15)20– 

27.5(30) mm, usually thick-walled; annulus of 

vesiculose cells; peristome of 32 filamentous and papillose 

teeth, straight to less than one turn twisted, 

(220)315–675(950) mm long, yellowish to orange, basal 

membrane (87.5)100–132.5(150) mm long. Operculum 

conical, 0.8–1.4 mm long, not systylious, with spirally 




twisted cells. Calyptra not seen. Spores spherical, 

10–12.5 mm in diameter, granulate to vermiculate, 

yellowish to light brown. Leaf colour reaction with 

KOH yellow to orange. 

Illustration: Zander (1993: 228). 

Habitat: Walls and dry banks in hillside with Puya 

and Acacia caven (Molina) Molina; 0–2430 m. 

Distribution: Chile and Peru. 

Representative specimens studied: CHILE. REGIÓN IV 

(COQUIMBO): La Paloma, 15.x.1914, Rose & Rose 

19522 (US); Las Vacas, 6.x.1914, Rose & Rose 19230a 

(NY, US); vicinity of Illapel, 8.x.1914, Rose & Rose 

19462d (NY, US); vicinity of La Serena, 10.x.1914, 

Rose & Rose 19289 (NY, US). REGIÓN V(VALPARAÍSO): 

Papudo, 11.xi.2001, Cano 111 (MUB 20840); Los 

Perales 1919, Jaffuel s.n. (PC, S B103857, UPS); 

Reñaca, xi.1923, Bertho 93 (PC); Viña del Mar, 

13.ix.1914, Rose & Rose 19105 (US, NY). REGIÓN 

METROPOLITANA DE SANTIAGO: Baños de Colina, 

8.xi.2001, Cano 22 (MUB 20841); Peñalolén, viii.1919, 

Bertho & Jaffuel, 13b (PC); Santiago, Santa Julia, 

8.ix.1970, Mahú 5074 (US); Santiago, Cerro de San 

Cristobal, 13.xi.1975, Mahú 10617b (H 3147197, MO). 

REGIÓN VII (O’HIGGINS): Rancagua, Cachapoal 1828, 

Bertero 127 (PC). REGIÓN VIII (BIOBÍO): Concepción, 

15.xi.1905, Thaxter s.n. (FH). PERU. AREQUIPA: Arequipa, 

28.viii.1994, Rose 19531 (NY). MOQUEGUA: pr. 

Torata, 14.iv.2005, Cano 2408a (MUB 20437). TACNA: 

pr. Palchia, 15.iv.2005, Cano 2427a (MUB 20470). 

Notes: Tortula platyphylla is characterized by upper 

and middle laminal cells (5)7.5–10(12.5) mm wide, lingulate 

to lingulate-ovate, sometimes constricted at 

middle, with rounded and in some cases apiculate 

apex and with a well-developed intramarginal border 

of quadrate to rectangular cells, less papillose and 

thicker walled, disposed in four to seven rows. In 

addition, the costa in the upper part is usually 

curved, which is well observed in the dorsal surface 

of the leaf. It is similar to Hennediella bellii 

(E.B. Bartram) R.H. Zander, a species known only 

from Ecuador (Bartram, 1955), because both species 

have leaves with a differentiated intramarginal 

border, which can be bi- or unistratose; however, 



platyphylla (Fig. 72 from Mahú 10617b, H; Figs 73–75, 78, 79 from Cano 22, MUB; Figs 76, 77 from Bertho s.n., FH). 

Fig. 72. Leaf. Fig. 73. Dorsal surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 74. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 75. Ventral surface 

cells of the costa and laminal cells at middle. Fig. 76. Cross-section of the costa at midleaf. Fig. 77. Cross-section of the 

middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 78. Peristome. Fig. 79. Spore. 

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T. platyphylla can be distinguished by its recurved 

margins (plane in H. bellii) and costa usually percurrent 

or excurrent in a yellowish apiculus or short 

hair-point (usually ending below the apex in H. bellii). 

It is also close to T. muralis and T. brevipes (Lesq.) 

Broth., species known from the USA and Mexico. 

However, T. platyphylla can be distinguished from the 

former species by the peristome teeth straight or 

slightly twisted and a basal membrane of the peristome 

of (87.5)100–132.5(150) mm long [in T. muralis, 

the peristome teeth are more than one turn spirally 

twisted and the basal membrane is (32.5)41.6– 

81.3(95) mm long], and a more differentiated intramarginal 

border. Tortula platyphylla differs from 

T. brevipes by well-developed intramarginal border 

(undifferentiated in T. brevipes) and a peristome of 

straight or slightly twisted teeth (peristome teeth 

about one full turn twisted in T. brevipes). One 

sample of T. platyphylla studied [Rose 19522 (US)] 

had peristome teeth of 850 mm long and more than 

one turn spirally twisted; however, the basal membrane 

of the peristome was 120 mm long and the 

intramarginal border was well developed. 

The Peruvian specimens lack a sporophyte; 

however, the gametophytic characters are the same as 

those of the Chilean specimens. In addition, this 

material has protonematic gemmae, which have not 

been observed in the Chilean material. Until more 

specimens can be collected in Neotropical areas, this 

material is identified as T. platyphylla. 

In the original description of Desmatodon amblyophyllus, 

two localities were mentioned (Montagne, 

1845). We have only found one syntype deposited in 

the PC herbarium, which is selected as the lectotype. 

According to Wijk et al. (1959), Barbula berteroana 

is a synonym of T. muralis. We have located a syntype 

of this name in PC, which is chosen as the lectotype. 

After studying the type material, we can conclude 

that there are no morphological differences between 

this taxon and T. platyphylla, and so it should be 

regarded as a synonym of the latter. The same is true 

of Barbula graminicolor ssp. subgraminicolor, whose 

original material corresponds with that of T. platyphylla. 

This synonym has already been observed by 

Thériot (1923). 

After studying the type material of Tortula 

flavipes, we conclude that this name is a synonym of 

T. platyphylla. 



Sollman (1990) considered Tortula purpureovelutina 

as a synonym of Pseudocrossidium crinitum. 

After studying the original material of this name 

deposited in JE, it does not correspond with any 

species of Pseudocrossidium. We conclude that it is a 

small and sterile sample of T. platyphylla. 

10. TORTULA TRUNCATA (HEDW.) MITT., NAT. HIST. 

AZORES: 297. 1870 (FIGS 46, 80–87) 

Gymnostomum truncatum Hedw., Sp. Musc. Frond.: 

30. 1801. Ind. loc.: ‘Omnibus fere regionibus locisque 

communis; laetissime in graminosis vigens’. Type: 

‘Gymnostomum truncatum’ [lectotype designated by 

Geissler in Margadant & Geissler (1995): G-Hedwig]. 

Bryum truncatulum With., Syst. Arr. Brit. Pl. 4, 3: 

801. 1801. Pottia truncatula (With.) Büse, Musci 

Neerl. Spec. Exisic. 67. 1858, nom. illeg. (art. 52.1). 

Ind. loc.: [Great Britain] ‘Ditch banks, meadows, pastures 

and heaths. ..Hasselquist observing this plant 

growing in great abundance upon the walls of Jerusalem...’.Type: 

not located. 

Pottia physcomitrioides Müll. Hal., Hedwigia 36: 101. 

1897. Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia, La Plata: Dr. Spegazzini 

1886 legit et misit’. Type: ‘Argentinia, La Plata’, Spegazzini 

s.n. (lectotype designated here: PC!; isolectotype: 

S B105783!]. 

Description: Plants (0.3)0.4–0.7(0.8) cm high, growing 

in loose turfs to gregarious, yellowish green to 

light green. Stems 0.1–0.5(0.7) cm high, simple or 


Leaves incurved, erect or erect-patent to 

slightly twisted when dry, erect-patent to spreading 

when moist, elliptical to obovate, more rarely 

oblong-elliptical, flat to slightly concave, (1.3)2–2.4 ¥ 

(0.5)0.8–1.1 mm; apex usually obtuse, sometimes 

apiculate, not cucullate; margins recurved from the 

base to middle, or only at base, sometimes plane or 

recurved only in one margin, entire, rarely slightly 

denticulate near the apex by projection of papillae, 

unistratose, usually unbordered, sometimes the marginal 

row of cells thicker walled; costa (57.5)75– 

95(100) mm wide, percurrent or excurrent in a mucro, 

yellowish to brown, 75–450 mm, smooth; ventral 


smooth; dorsal surface cells of the costa elongate, 

smooth; in cross-section, semicircular, with two 

guide cells in one layer, band of ventral stereids 

undifferentiated, band of dorsal stereids semicir- 

cular, with one to four stereid rows, sometimes 

substereids, hydroids developed, ventral surface 

cells rounded, (10)12.5–15(17.5) ¥ (10)12.5–17.5 mm, 

disposed in one layer, dorsal surface cells differentiated; 

upper laminal cells hexagonal to quadratehexagonal 

or rectangular, (12.5)17.5–25(27.5) ¥ 

(10)15–20(22.5) mm, thin- to slightly thick-walled, 

not collenchymatous, with zero to one simple 

papillae, 1 mm high, upper external marginal cells 

rectangular, more rarely quadrate or oblate, (10)12.5– 

20(30) ¥ (7.5)10–12.5(17.5) mm [length/width ratio, 

(0.57)1.25–1.75(4)]; middle laminal cells rectangular 

or quadrate-hexagonal, (15)20–27.5(37.5) ¥ (12.5)15– 

20(30) mm, thin- to slightly thick-walled, not collenchymatous, 

smooth, middle external marginal 

cells rectangular, rarely quadrate, (15)20–22.5(27.5) 

¥ (10)12.5–15 mm [length/width ratio, (1)1.6– 

1.8(2.75)], thin-walled, sometimes slightly thickwalled, 

smooth, middle internal marginal cells 

rectangular, sometimes quadrate or subquadrate, 

15–22.5(35) ¥ (7.5)12.5–17.5 mm [length/width ratio, 

(0.86)1–2], thin- to slightly thick-walled, smooth; 

basal laminal cells rectangular, inflated, (42.5)50– 

102.5 ¥ (20)25–32.5(37.5) mm, usually thin-walled, not 

or slightly collenchymatous, smooth, basal external 

marginal cells rectangular, (32.5)35–57.5(75) ¥ 

(10)12.5–17.5(20) mm [length/width ratio, (1.8)2.6– 

4.8(6)], usually thin-walled, smooth. Autoecious. Perichaetial 

leaves undifferentiated, not sheathing at 

base, 1.7–2 ¥ 0.6–0.9 mm. Seta erect, 1.9–2.9 ¥ 0.10– 

0.18 mm, straight to slightly twisted to the left, 

yellowish to orange. Capsule erect, stegocarpous, 

exerted; theca turbinate, 0.7–1 ¥ (0.6)0.9–1.1 mm, 

orange to reddish brown; exothecial cells rectangular 

to quadrate, (32.5)37.5–47.5(62.5) ¥ 25–37.5 mm, thinwalled; 

annulus of quadrate cells, filaments in the 

cells of the annulus sometimes differentiated; peristome 

undifferentiated, basal membrane undifferentiated. 

Operculum rostrate, 0.5–0.9 mm long, not 

systylious, with straight, sometimes slightly twisted 

above cells. Calyptra cucullate to slightly mitrate, 

1.14–1.44 mm long, brownish yellow. Spores spherical, 

(20)22.5–25(27.5) mm in diameter, baculate, 

brownish. Leaf colour reaction with KOH yellow. 

Illustrations: Crum & Anderson (1981: 369 as Pottia 

truncata (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.); Zander (1993: 

229). 

Habitat: On soil; 10–50 m. 

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Figures 80–87. Scanning electron micrographs (Figs 81, 84, 87) and light micrographs (Figs 80, 82, 83, 85, 86) of Tortula 

truncata (from Felippone 1684, PC). Fig. 80. Leaf. Fig. 81. Ventral surface of the leaf apex. Fig. 82. Cross-section of the 

costa at midleaf. Fig. 83. Cross-section of the middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 84. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. 

Fig. 85. Capsule. Fig. 86. Annulus with filaments differentiated. Fig. 87. Spore. 





Distribution: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Also 

known from Europe (Hill et al., 2006), temperate Asia 

(Saito, 1975; Li et al., 2001), North Africa (Ros et al., 

1999), North America (Anderson et al., 1990), Australia 

(Streimann & Klazenga, 2002), and New Zealand 

(Fife, 1995). 


BUENOS AIRES: 1897, Heribaud s.n. (PC). CHILE. 

REGIÓN VIII (BIOBÍO): Mitrinhue, 14.ix.2001, 

Ireland & Bellolio 30377 (MO). URUGUAY. 

CANELONES: La Paz 1916, Felippone 1316 (JE). 

COLONIA: Estanzuela, 28.vii.1928, Herter 3581 (NY). 

MONTEVIDEO: Montevideo, Felippone 1684 (PC); 

Carrasco, viii.1924, Herter 1443 (NY); Unión, Felippone 

252 (NY); Mabin, Felippone 793 (H-BR 

3390 005); Mirador Rosado, Felippone 215 (H-BR 

3390 012). 

Notes: Tortula truncata is easily characterized by 

usually obovate leaves, with smooth cells, and capsules 

exerted, turbinate, and gymnostomous. 

Müller (2002) reported Pottia intermedia (Turner) 

Fürnr. (Tortula modica R.H.Zander) from one locality 

in Chile, indicating that the new record seemed to be 

based on an introduction. The Chilean specimen 

[REGIÓN VII (O’HIGGINS): Talca, area of the university, 

6.vi.1999, Müller C16 (DR)] exhibited the typical 

characters provided for this species: more cylindrical 

theca and elongate seta than T. truncate. New collections 

will be necessary to know the status of this 

taxon in South America. 

We have located two syntypes of Pottia physcomitrioides 

at S and PC herbaria. We chose the specimen 

from PC as the lectotype, because it is better 

preserved. 

11. TORTULA VAHLIANA (SCHULTZ) MONT., FL. 

CHIL. 7: 153. 1850 (FIGS 28, 88–93) 

Barbula vahliana Schultz, Nova Acta Phys.-Med. 

Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 11(1): 222. 1823. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Alpibus Pyrenaeis ad terram ochraceam, 

ubi Bridelius primus legit’. Type: not located. 

Tortula peruviana Mitt., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 169. 

1869. Barbula peruviana (Mitt.) A. Jaeger, Ber. 

Thätigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1871–72: 441. 

1873, syn. nov. Ind. loc.: ‘Peruvia, Herb. Hooker’. Type: 

‘Peru’, Hooker s.n. (lectotype designated here: 

NY-Mitten!). 

Description: Plants 0.2–0.4 cm high, growing in turfs, 

yellowish green. Stems 0.1–0.2 cm, usually simple. 

Rhizoidal and protonematic gemmae undeveloped. 

Leaves erect to erect-patent when dry, patent, spreading 

when moist below, oblong to lingulate, slightly 

concave, 1.5–1.9 ¥ 0.5–0.6 mm; apex rounded, sometimes 

obtuse, not cucullate; margins plane, sometimes 

slightly recurved below, papillose-crenulate from the 

apex to the middle, unistratose, usually bordered by 

one to three differentiated cell rows, forming a marginal 

border; costa 80–92.5 mm wide, usually excurrent 

in an apiculus, rarely ending two to three cells below 

the apex, yellowish to hyaline, 50–75 mm, smooth; 

ventral surface cells of the costa rectangular to hexagonal, 

not bulging, papillose from near the apex to the 

lower third; dorsal surface cells of the costa linear, 

slightly papillose near the apex, smooth in the rest; in 

cross-section, circular to semicircular, with four guide 

cells in two layers, band of ventral stereids undifferentiated, 

band of dorsal stereids semicircular, with two 

to four stereid rows, hydroids developed, ventral 

surface cells quadrate, 7.5–15 ¥ 7.5–12.5 mm, disposed 

in one layer, dorsal surface cells differentiated, similar 

to substereids; upper laminal cells quadratehexagonal, 

12.5–20 ¥ 12.5–17.5 mm, thin-walled, not 

collenchymatous, with two to four bifurcate papillae, 

5 mm high, upper external marginal cells quadrate or 

oblate, sometimes short-rectangular, 7.5–17.5 ¥ 10– 

15 mm (length/width ratio, 0.5–1.8); middle laminal 

cells quadrate-hexagonal, 17.5–25 ¥ 12.5–20 mm, thinwalled, 

not or very slightly collenchymatous, with four 

to six bifurcate papillae, 5 mm high, middle external 

marginal cells quadrate to short- rectangular or oblate, 

10–20 ¥ 12.5–15 mm (length/width ratio, 0.7–1.6), 

slightly thick-walled, with two to four inconspicuous 

and simple papillae, middle internal marginal cells 

quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular or quadrate, 12.5– 

20 ¥ 12.5–17.5 mm (length/width ratio, 0.8–1.6), 

slightly thick-walled, with two to four simple and 

inconspicuous papillae; basal laminal cells rectangular, 

inflated, 37.5–75 ¥ 15–37.5 mm, thin-walled, 

slightly collenchymatous, smooth, basal external marginal 

cells rectangular, 17.5–37.5 ¥ 12.5–17.5 mm 

(length/width ratio, 1–3), thin-walled, smooth. Dioecious 

(probably rhizoautoecious). Perichaetial leaves 

undifferentiated, not sheathing at base, 2–2.2 ¥ 

0.5 mm. Seta erect, 8–10 ¥ 0.10–0.12 mm, slightly 

twisted to the right above and to the left below, reddish 

brown. Capsule erect, stegocarpous, exerted; theca 

cylindrical, 1.4–2 ¥ 0.4–0.5 mm, reddish brown; exothecial 

cells rectangular, 27.5–55 ¥ 12.5–15 mm, thinwalled; 

annulus of vesiculose cells; peristome of 32 

filamentous and papillose teeth, one turn spirally 

twisted, c. 510 mm long, orange; basal membrane c. 

100 mm long, papillose. Operculum conical, c. 0.77 mm 

long, not systylious, with spirally twisted cells. Calyptra 

cucullate, yellowish brown. Spores spherical, 7.5– 

10 mm in diameter, granulate, brownish. Leaf colour 


Illustration: Cano (2006: 171). 


Habitat: Unknown. 

Distribution: Peru. Also known from Europe (Hill 

et al., 2006), North Africa (Ros et al., 1999), and temperate 

Asia (Düll, 1984). 


Figures 88–93. Light micrographs of Tortula vahliana (from Hooker s.n., NY). Fig. 88. Leaf. Fig. 89. Ventral surface of 

the leaf apex. Fig. 90. Middle marginal cells of the leaf. Fig. 91. Middle laminal cells. Fig. 92. Cross-section of the costa 

at midleaf. Fig. 93. Peristome. 

Notes: According to Mitten (1869), the original material 

of T. peruviana was deposited in ‘herb. Hooker’. In 

BM, where the original herbarium of Hooker is housed, 

there is no syntype of this name. We have found a 

syntype in the Mitten herbarium at NY, which we here 



select as the lectotype of this name. After studying the 

type material of this species, we cannot find any 

diagnostic character to segregate this taxon from the 

European specimens studied of T. vahliana. Thus, 

T. peruviana has oblong to lingulate leaves, with plane 

or only slightly recurved margins at the middle, 

usually rounded apex, marginal cells forming a differentiated 

border of usually quadrate, less papillose, and 

thicker walled cells than the rest of the lamina, and 

peristome with 32 spirally twisted teeth with a short 

basal membrane and small spores. Therefore, with the 

current data, T. peruviana is considered to be conspecific 

with T. vahliana. 

Tortula vahliana has not previously been cited in the 

Neotropics. The only report of this species in America 

is by Montagne (1850) from Chile, although this 

species does not appear in the last Chilean checklist 

(He, 1998). After studying the specimen, which supports 

the record of Montagne (1850) (Quillota, Bertero 

s.n., PC), it was identified as T. platyphylla. This 

material is coincidentally the type material of Barbula 

berteroana. Consistently, the newly synonymized T. peruviana 

is the first report of T. vahliana in America. 

EXCLUDED TAXA 

1. POTTIA ALTIPES BROTH., ARK. BOT. 15(6): 4. 

1918, SYN. NOV. = HENNEDIELLA HEIMII (HEDW.) 

R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Argentina: prov. Salta, Chorillos (in puna) 

in ripa rivuli humida, c. 4300 m s. m. (n. 60)’. Type: 

‘Argentina, prov. Salta, Chorillos’, 4300 m, 30.x.1901, 

Fries 60 (lectotype designated here: S B90603!; isolectotype: 

PC!). 

We have found two syntypes of this name housed at 

PC and S. We chose the syntype at S as the lectotype 

of P. altipes. The original material shows capsules 

systylious, with turbinate thecas, polygonal exothecial 

cells, hexagonal and with inconspicuous papillae 

in the upper and middle laminal cells, border scarcely 

differentiated, and orange KOH leaf reaction. Pottia 

altipes certainly represents H. heimii, and its morphological 

characters fall within the range of variation 

of this latter species. Therefore, we conclude that 

P. altipes is a new synonym of H. heimii. 

2. POTTIA CHUBUTENSIS CARDOT &BROTH., 

KONGL. SVENSKA VETENSK. ACAD. HANDL. 63(10): 

21. 1923, SYN. NOV. = HENNEDIELLA HEIMII 

(HEDW.) R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia andina: Territ. Chubut, Valle 16. 

de Octubre, Estancia Underwood (318)’. Type: [Argentina] 

‘Patagonie, territoire Chubut, valleé du 16 

octobre, Estancia Underwood’, 5.xi.1908, Skottsberg 

318 (lectotype designated here: PC!). 

A syntype of this name was deposited in Cardot’s 

herbarium at PC. It is selected here as the lectotype. 

After studying the type material of P. chubutensis, 

we did not find any differences to separate this material 

from H. heimii. Thus, the plants have turbinate 

capsules, with the operculum attached to the columella, 

marginal cells of the leaf scarcely differentiated, 

and orange KOH leaf reaction. Therefore, 

P. chubutensis is proposed as a new synonym of 

H. heimii. 

3. POTTIA CUCULLATA (HAMPE) A.JAEGER, BER. 

THÄTIGK. ST. GALLISCHEN NATURWISS. GES. 

1871–72: 345 1873, SYN. NOV. = OREOWEISIA 

EROSA (HAMPE EX MÜLL. HAL.) KINDB. 

Anacalypta cucullata Hampe, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 

5, 5: 335. 1866. Weissia cucullata (Hampe) Mitt., nom. 

illeg., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 140. 1869 [non Weissia 

cucullata Müll. Hal., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 16: 163. 

1858]. Ind. loc.: ‘Bogota, Guadalupe, 3200 met., leg. 

Lindig.’. Type: [Colombia] ‘Bogota, Guadalupe’, 

3200 m, Lindig s.n. (holotype: BM-Hampe!; isotype: 

BM-Bescherele!). 

The original material deposited at BM consists of 

small plants with oblong-ligulate leaves, obtuse apex, 

crenulate margins, rounded to subquadrate, mamillose 

laminal cells, stem with central strand, and 

peristome of rudimentary teeth. We conclude that this 

species does not belong to the genus Tortula or any 

other genera of Pottiaceae. It shows the same morphological 

characters as Oreoweisia erosa. Therefore, 

P. cucullata is synonymized here with this latter 

species. 

4. POTTIA HUMILLIMA (ÅNGSTRÖM) PARIS, INDEX 

BRYOL. 1023. 1898, SYN. NOV. = MICROBRYUM 

DAVALLIANUM (SM.) R.H. ZANDER 

Anacalypta humillima Ångström, Öfvers. Förh. 

Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. 33(4): 10. 1876. Ind. 

loc.: [Brazil] ‘Widgren retulit’. Type: ‘Brazilia, Caldas’ 

Widgren s.n. (lectotype designated here: S B10082!). 

In the herbarium of J. Ångström at S, there is 

deposited a sheet which contains plants numbered 

from one to six. Most of them are glued and others are 

on a slide. This material was collected by Widgren in 

Brazil and, in numbers five and six, ‘Caldas, Brazilia’ 

is indicated. All of this material is chosen as the 

lectotype. The material seems to belong to Microbryum 

Schimp. Thus, the small plants show apiculate 

leaves, with recurved margins, upper and middle 

laminal cells papillose, reddish KOH leaf reaction, a 

single band of dorsal stereids, and urne stegocarpous. 

We were only able to study the spores from one 


specimen which was inside a small envelope. These 

spores are papillose. Therefore, we conclude that 

P. humillima is a new synonym of M. davallianum. 

Microbryum davallianum is known from Europe, 

North Africa, temperate Asia, North America, and 

Australia (Düll, 1984). Therefore, it is a new record 

for South America. In the studied material for this 

revision, we have identified other specimens of 

M. davallianum from Chile [Región Metropolitana de 

Santiago, Santiago, Facultad de Ciencias, 16.vi.1983, 

Mahú 20447 (MO)]. Therefore, the range of this 

species in South America is extended to Brazil and 

Chile. 

5. POTTIA LIGULARIFOLIA MÜLL. HAL., HEDWIGIA 

34: 123. 1895, SYN. NOV. = ZANDERIA 

OCTOBLEPHARIS (A. JAEGER) GOFFINET 

Ind. loc.: ‘Minas Geraës: in regione fluminis 

Paranahyba, in terra, Martio 1893 – Ule n. 1502’. 

Type: [Brazil] ‘In Paranahybagebiet, Minas Geraes’, 

iii.1893, Ule 1502 (lectotype designated here: HBG!). 

We have located the original material of this species 

at the HBG herbarium, which matches exactly with 

the description provided by Brotherus (1895). In addition, 

‘ex Herb. Ule’ is indicated on the label. This 

material is chosen as the lectotype. 

The plants have a stem without central strand, 

spathulate leaves, with obtuse-rounded apex, upper 

laminal cells rounded to subquadrate, smooth, thickwalled, 

costa ending below the apex, in cross-section 

without ventral surface cells, and capsules with peristome 

of 16 teeth in eight pairs. All of these characters 

are distinctive of Z. octoblepharis (cf. Goffinet, 1997). 

Therefore, P. ligularifolia is synonymized with this 

latter species. 

6. POTTIA ULEANA PARIS, INDEX BRYOL. 1030. 

1898, SYN. NOV. = ZANDERIA OCTOBLEPHARIS 

(A. JAEGER) GOFFINET 

≡ Pottia asperula Müll. Hal. ex Broth., Hedwigia 34: 

123. 1895, nom. illeg. (non Pottia asperula Mitt., J. 

Bot. 9: 4. 1871). Ind. loc.: ‘Am. merid. Brazil. or. 

(Goyaz)’. Type: [Brazil]: ‘Bras. Goyaz’, i.1893, Ule 

1554 (lectotype designated here: S B105785!). 

We located a syntype in the G. Roth herbarium at 

S. It is chosen as the lectotype of this name. The 

specimen has the same characteristics as those shown 

by P. ligularifolia, except that the leaves are more 

lingulate than those of the latter species. It was not 

possible to observe the peristome, because the capsules 

lack an operculum and it has fallen down. 

Therefore, P. uleana is here synonymized with 

Z. octoblepharis. 


7. TORTULA AMPHIDIIFOLIA (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 

NAT. PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 430. 1902, 

SYN. NOV. = CHENIA LORENTZII (MÜLL. HAL.) 

R.H. ZANDER 

Barbula amphidiifolia Müll. Hal., Linnaea 42: 332. 

1879. Ind. loc.: ‘Argentina Cordobensis, Ascochinga, 

cum Barbula sedifolia et Trichostomo acaulo Aprili 

1871, terrestris’. Type: ‘Argentina, Cordobensis, 

Ascochinga’, iv.1871, Lorentz s.n. (lectotype designated 

here: S B103816!; isolectotype: NY!). 

We located two syntypes of this name in NY and S 

herbaria. We select as lectotype of this name the 

syntype of S. The samples are poorly preserved, but it 

was possible to observe the following characters: 

reddish lamina with KOH, distal laminal cells 

smooth, without border differentiated, some leaves 

slightly dentate near apex, and cross-section of the 

costa with substereids. The syntype of NY has specimens 

only with setae and the syntype of S has broken 

capsules. However, Müller (1879), in the original 

description, wrote that the capsule had a peristome 

with a short basal membrane and rudimentary teeth. 

We conclude that T. amphidiifolia is a new synonym 

of C. lorentzii. 

8. TORTULA ATRATA THÉR., REVISTA CHILENA HIST. 

NAT. 25: 297, PL. 25 FIG. 1. 1921, 

SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA BREVISETA (MONT.) COMB. 

NOV. (SEE TORTULA BREVISETA MONT.) 

Ind. loc.: ‘Los Perales de Marga-Marga (en société 

avec Orthotrichum rupestre), c. fr. juin (Costes, 

n°102 pp)’. Type: ‘Chili, Los Perales de Marga Marga’ 

1915, Costés 102 p.p. (holotype: PC!). 

The type specimen lacks sporophytes and shows 

lingulate leaves, constricted at the middle, irregularly 

bistratose in the upper third and at middle, with a 

hyaline, short and smooth or spinulose hair-point, 

plane or weakly recurved at base or up to the middle 

margins, bordered by three to five rows of thicker 

walled and smooth cells, upper and middle laminal 

cells 10–12.5 ¥ 7.5–10(12.5) mm, cross-section of the 

costa with two to three dorsal stereid rows, with 

hydroids and substereids, and dorsal side of the costa 

with simple or bifurcate papillae, 2.5–5(10) mm high. 

All of these characters place this species as a new 

synonym of S. breviseta. 

9. TORTULA BERTHOANA THÉR., REVISTA CHILENA 

HIST. NAT. 30: 343, LÁM. 25 FIG. 3. 1926. 

SYNTRICHIA SP. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Los Perales de Marga-Marga (M. Bertho 

1924)’. Type: ‘Chili, Los Perales, pr. Valparaiso’, 

ii.1924, Bertho 136 (holotype: PC!; isotypes: S 

B103842!, W!). 



The plants are small, fragile, with lingulate to 

lingulate-spathulate leaves, margins recurved up 

to the middle, upper and middle laminal cells 

10–12.5 mm wide, cross-section of the costa with three 

to four dorsal stereid rows and without hydroids, 

papillose costa ending some cells below the apex and 

gradually narrowed to the apex, with short basal 

membrane of the peristome, and spores 7.5– 

10(12.5) mm in diameter. The anatomy of the costa 

and the KOH reaction place this species in the genus 

Syntrichia. It could be a different expression of S. fragilis; 

however, it has constricted leaves at the middle, 

with narrower upper and middle laminal cells, crosssection 

of the costa without hydroids, a different leaf 

apex, and smaller spores. Until a complete study of 

Syntrichia is carried out in South America, T. berthoana 

is transferred to the genus Syntrichia. 

10. TORTULA BREVISETA MONT., ANN. SCI. NAT., 

BOT., SÉR. 3, 4: 107. 1845 ∫ SYNTRICHIA 

BREVISETA (MONT.) M.J.CANO & M.T.GALLEGO, 

COMB. NOV. 

Ind. loc.: ‘in terra circa S. lago reipublice chilensis 

Aprili 1829 legit cl. C. Gay. Herb. Mus. Par.’ Type: 

‘Chile, S. Lago’, Gay s.n. (holotype: PC!; isotype: PC!). 

After studying the original material of T. breviseta, 

it proved to belong to the genus Syntrichia, because it 

shows a costa with crescent-shaped dorsal stereid 

rows and absence of dorsal surface cells of the costa, 

and red KOH leaf reaction. As published by Montagne 

(1845), the plants have a short seta (5 mm high) and 

peristome with long spirally twisted teeth (900 mm 

high) and short basal membrane (two cell rows of 

37.5 mm high). Therefore, we transferred this name to 

the genus Syntrichia as S. breviseta. 

11. TORTULA BRUNNEA (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., NAT. 

PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 433. 1902, SYN. 

NOV. = SYNTRICHIA FRAGILIS (TAYLOR) OCHYRA 

Barbula brunnea Müll. Hal., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 

4: 113. 1897. Ind. loc.: [Bolivia] not indicated. Type: 

‘Bolivia, provincia Cochabamba, prope Choquecamata’, 

vi.1889, Germain s.n. (lectotype designated 

here: FI!). 

After searching in most of the herbaria in which 

material of C. Müller could have been deposited, we 

were only able to locate a syntype of this taxon in the 

herbarium of E. Levier at FI, which we chose as the 

lectotype of this name. The material showed fragile 

leaves, as is mentioned in the original description, 

with mucronate apex, leaf margins slightly recurved, 

smooth dorsal surface of the costa, without hydroids, 

upper and middle lamina cells 10 mm wide, and 

membrane of the peristome short (100 mm high, six 

to eight cell rows). According to Gallego (2005), the 

typical morphotype of S. fragilis shows a papillose 

dorsal surface of the costa, hydroids, upper and 

middle lamina cells wider, and leaf margins recurved 

up to the upper third, but all of these characters are 

present in the variability shown by this species. 

Therefore, B. brunnea is here synonymized with 

S. fragilis. 

12. TORTULA BUCHTIENII HERZOG, BEIH. BOT. 

CENTRALBL. 27: 354. 1910 ∫ SYNTRICHIA 

BUCHTIENII (HERZOG) COMB. NOV. 

Ind loc.: ‘Bolivia, Cacaltaya, 4800 m, leg. O. Buchtien, 

März., 08’. Type: ‘Bolivia, Chacaltaya, 4800 m’, ii.1908 

m, Buchtien 25 (holotype: JE!; isotypes: PC-Cardot!, 

PC-Thériot!). 

The type material lacks sporophytes and is recognized 

by lingulate leaves, weakly constricted and 

recurved up to the upper third, smooth, brown 

hair-point, hyaline at the apex (130–200 mm long), 

unistratose lamina, upper and middle laminal cells 

(7.5)10–12.5 mm wide, cross-section of the costa with 

five to six dorsal stereid rows, one to two guide cell 

rows and hydroids, which sometimes are scarcely 

differentiated, and papillose dorsal surface of the 

costa, with simple papillae, 2.5 mm long. This species 

is similar to S. bartramii (Steere) R.H. Zander, but 

the latter species shows a longer and spinulose hairpoint 

(although some specimens have an apiculate 

apex), plane leaf margins, dorsal surface of the costa 

more papillose, and lamina irregularly bistratose. It 

also resembles S. montana var. calva (Durieu & 

Sagot) J.J. Amann, but the mucronate apex, smaller 

laminal cells, 5–7.5(10) mm wide, clearly constricted 

leaves, and leaf margins recurved up to the middle, 

rarely up to the upper third, are significant differences 

from this taxon. Therefore, we transfer T. buchtienii 

to the genus Syntrichia as S. buchtienii. 

13. TORTULA BULLATA HERZOG, HEDWIGIA 64: 10. 

1923, NOM. ILLEG. [NON TORTULA BULLATA 

(SOMMERF.) LINDB., MUSCI SCAND. 21. 1879], 

SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA RURALIS (HEDW.) 

F. WEBER &D.MOHR 

Ind. loc.: ‘Chile, auf sandiger Erde eines Waldschlages 

bei Punta Arenas (Süd-Chile), c. 50 m über dem Meer, 

Dezember 1911, leg. Th. Herzog’. Type: ‘Chile, Bei 

Punta Arenas’, xii.1911, Herzog 5249 (holotype: JE!; 

isotypes: JE!, PC!). 

Tortula bullata is clearly related to the S. ruralis 

complex, which is only represented in South America 

by S. ruralis var. ruralis and S. ruralis var. spiralis 

(Herzog) R.H. Zander. The leaves are ovate, with 

slightly cucullate apex, long and spinose hyaline hair- 


point, recurved leaf margins up to the upper third or 

to the apex, costa without hydroids, upper and middle 

laminal cells 10–12.5 mm wide, and peristome with 

long teeth and a high basal membrane. The lamina, 

mainly in young leaves, tapers to the apex. The leaves 

are patent or spreading when moist and not recurved, 

as might be expected in S. ruralis, but this character 

does not separate this species from S. ruralis var. 

ruralis. Therefore, we conclude that T. bullata nom. 

illeg. is a new synonym of S. ruralis. 

14. TORTULA CHARACODONTA (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 

NAT. PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 430. 1902, SYN. 

NOV. = SYNTRICHIA PERCARNOSA (MÜLL. HAL.) 

R.H. ZANDER 

Barbula characodonta Müll. Hal., Linnaea 43: 431. 

1882. Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia subtropica Tucumanensis, 

Sierra de Aconquija in montibus excelsis inter 

Siambòn et Tafi terram habitans, Aprili 1872’. Type: 

‘Argentinia subtropica Tucumanensis, Sierra de Aconquija 

in montibus excelsis inter Siambòn et Tafi 

terram habitans’, iv.1872, Lorentz s.n. (lectotype designated 

here: PC!). 

We have only been able to locate one syntype in PC 

of the unique specimen reported in the original 

description (Müller, 1882), which we have chosen as 

the lectotype. The material consists of only three 

poorly preserved plants, with two sporophytes and 

without a peristome, but the cross-section of the 

leaves clearly places this species in the genus Syntrichia. 

The plane leaf margins, weakly bordered, 

slightly cucullate apex, small upper and middle 

laminal cells (5)7.5–10 mm wide, and scarcely differentiated 

basal hyaline area of the leaves of this plant 

characterize S. percarnosa, with which T. characodonta 

is synonymized. 

15. TORTULA CHUBUTENSIS DUSÉN, BOT. NOT. 

1905: 300. 1905, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA RURALIS 

(HEDW.) F. WEBER &D.MOHR 

Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia orientalis prope ostium flum. 

Chubut in arena mobili’. Type: [Argentina] ‘Patagonia 

orientalis, Territorio Chubut, prope Rawson colonien’, 

ix.1865, Dusén 68 (lectotype designated here: S 

B103778!; isolectotypes: PC!, UPS!). 

We have located three syntypes of this name in 

the Cardot herbarium at PC, UPS, and the Dusén 

herbarium at S. We chose the specimen deposited at 

S as the lectotype because it is better preserved and 

is the only specimen from the Dusén herbarium. 

The species is recognized by ovate-lingulate and 

unistratose leaves, without constriction at the 

middle, with recurved margins up to the upper third 

or near to the apex, not bordered, with long, spinose 


and hyaline hair-point, cross-section of the costa 

without hydroids, and upper and middle laminal 

cells of 12.5 mm wide. Brotherus (1931) compared 

this species with T. ruralis (Hedw.) P. Gaertn., B. 

Mey. & Scherb, and separated the two species by 

the leaf shape only. The type material is sterile; 

therefore, it is synonymized with S. ruralis on the 

basis of gametophytic characters. 

16. TORTULA CONTORTA (HAMPE) MONT., FL. CHIL. 

7: 147. 1850, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA 

FLAGELLARIS (SCHIMP.) R.H. ZANDER 

Barbula contorta Hampe, Syn. Musc. Frond. 1: 629. 

1849. Ind. loc.: ‘Chile: Bertero’. Type: ‘Chile’, Bertero 

s.n. (holotype: BM-Hampe!). 

The type is a poorly preserved specimen, as it 

consists of three leaves and one sporophyte with few 

perichaetial leaves. Features of note are the flagelliform 

branches, lingulate to lanceolate leaves, 

recurved margins up to the upper third, not bordered, 

with a smooth hair-point (200–500 mm long) or apiculus 

(50–100 mm long), leaves individually twisted 

when dry, papillose dorsal surface of the costa, crosssection 

of the costa with hydroids, 1–3(4) dorsal 

stereid rows, sometimes with substereids and one to 

three guide cell rows, upper and middle laminal cells 

(10)12.5–15(17.5) mm wide, peristome with long teeth, 

and basal membrane of 200–350 mm high. Tortula 

contorta is placed in Syntrichia on the basis of the 

gametophytic characters, and is synonymized with 

S. flagellaris. 

17. TORTULA FERRUGINEA E.B. BARTRAM, 

REV. BRYOL. LICHÉNOL. 33: 325. 1964–65 [1965], 

SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA BOGOTENSIS (HAMPE) 

R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Tucuman: Tafi, Cumbres Calchafines, 

4200 m, M. Lillo no. 00300’. Type: [Argentina] ‘Tafi, 

Cumbres Calchafines, 4200 m’, 1.ii.1907, M. Lillo s.n. 

(ex LIL no. 300) (holotype: FH-Bartram!). 

Bartram (1965) published this species on the basis 

of a specimen without sporophytes, with lightly 

contorted, erect, acuminate, nearly plane margined 

leaves, with yellowish hair points. In the protologue, 

he indicated some affinity between the new species 

and T. chrysophyla (Müll. Hal.) Paris, which, according 

to Matteri (2003b), is a synonym of S. princeps 

(De Not.) Mitt. The type material has the gametophytic 

characters which define S. bogotensis: orange 

to reddish or reddish brown hair-points, leaf apex 

occasionally sharply toothed, cross-section of the costa 

with 1–3(4) stereid rows, without hydroids, plane 

leaf margins, and upper and middle laminal cells 

12–26 mm wide. The leaf margins are slightly 



recurved near the middle in some leaves, although 

this has also been observed in Neotropical specimens 

of this species (Gallego, Cano & Sérgio, 2005). According 

to Matteri (2003a), S. bogotensis has not been 

reported in Argentina; therefore, it is a new record for 

this country. 

18. TORTULA FRAGILLIMA HERZOG, HEDWIGIA 57: 

246. 1916, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA FRAGILIS 

(TAYLOR) OCHYRA 

Ind. loc.: ‘An Baumrinde im Bergwald von Santiago 

de Chiquitos (Ostbolivia), c. 700 m, Mai 07, leg. Th. 

Herzog.’ Type: [Bolivia] ‘bei Santiago de Chiquitos’, 

700 m, v.1907, Herzog s.n. (holotype: JE!). 

We have studied the holotype deposited at the 

Herzog herbarium in JE. It is characterized by 

fragile, mucronate, and unistratose leaves, with 

recurved margins up to the middle, or only at the 

base, upper and middle laminal cells 7.5–10 mm wide, 

and strongly papillose dorsal surface of the costa. The 

cross-section of the costa shows hydroids and two to 

three dorsal stereid rows. All of these characters are 

typical of S. fragilis, with which it is synonymized. 

The specimen bears a revision label by Ph. Sollman 

with the name ‘Syntrichia fragilis’ handwritten, from 

1991, but, to our knowledge, this synonym has not 

been published until now. 

19. TORTULA LAEVINERVIS BROTH. EX DUSÉN, ARK. 

BOT. 6(10): 4, TAF. 1 FIGS 9–12. 1906, SYN. 


Ind. loc.: ‘Chile centralis Valparaíso, Viña del mar in 

rupibus’. Type: ‘Chile australis ad Valparaiso opp. in 

rupibus et saxis’, 21.vi.1896, Dusén 121 (lectotype 

designated here: M!; isolectotypes: E!, NY!, O!, PC!). 

Dusén (1906a), in the original description, compared 

this species with T. epilosa Broth. ex Dusén, 

but he distinguished T. laevinervis by its narrow leaf 

and the costa excurrent in an arista. We located 

several syntypes of this name in E, NY, M, O, and PC 

herbaria. We selected the specimen deposited at M as 

the lectotype, because it is the best preserved. After 

studying the original material, this proved to belong 

to the genus Syntrichia. In addition, the drawing 

from the original description supports this. Distinguishing 

features include the fragile (although some 

have quite firm), mucronate, and unistratose leaves, 

with recurved margins up to the middle, upper and 

middle laminal cells 7.5–10 mm wide, and papillose 

dorsal surface of the costa. The cross-section of the 

costa shows hydroids and three to four dorsal stereid 

rows. All of these characters indicate that this species 

is a synonym of S. fragilis. 

20. TORTULA LIGULATA HERZOG, BIBLIOTH. BOT. 

87: 48, FIG. 13B–D. 1916, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA 

FRAGILIS (TAYLOR) OCHYRA 

Ind. loc.: ‘Auf trockener Erde im Aracatal, c. 3000 m, 

no. 3193’. Type: [Bolivia] ‘Aracatal’, 3000 m, ix.1911, 

Herzog 3193 (holotype: JE!; isotypes: B! L!, M!, O!, 

PC!). 

Herzog (1916) published this species on the basis of 

one collection. The original material lacks sporophytes 

and shows fragile, lingulate, weakly constricted at 

middle or not constricted, unistratose leaves, mucronate, 

with recurved margins up to the middle, middle 

and upper laminal cells 7.5–10 mm wide, cross-section 

of the costa with hydroids, and an anatomy characteristic 

of the genus Syntrichia (dorsal stereid band 

crescentic in shape and dorsal epidermis layer undifferentiated). 

All of these gametophytic characters are 

present in the variability shown by S. fragilis, and it is 

synonymized with this species. 

21. TORTULA LITOREA CARDOT &BROTH., KONGL. 

SVENSKA VETENSKAPSAKAD. HANDL. 63(10): 23, 

TAB. 2, FIG. 2A–E. 1923. SYNTRICHIA SP. 

Ind. loc.: ‘W. Falkland: Port Philomel, Halfway Cove 

(346). E. Falkland: Darwin Harbour (347)’. Type: 

[Argentina] ‘Falkland, île occidentale, Halfway Cove’, 

21.xi.1907, Skottsberg 346 (lectotype designated here: 

PC!; isolectotype: UPS!). 

We have found four syntypes in PC and UPS of 

the collections reported in the protologue. We have 

selected the number Skottsberg 346 from PC as the 

lectotype, because it is better preserved. The species is 

recognized by lanceolate, not constricted, mucronate 

and not bordered leaves, sometimes fragile, with 

recurved margins up to the upper third. The original 

material has no sporophytes, but the structure of the 

leaf, including the costa, suggests that this species 

belongs to the genus Syntrichia. The leaf shape and the 

papillae of the dorsal surface of the costa are different 

from those typical of S. fragilis, but the rest of the 

gametophytic characters are typical of the latter 

species. Cardot & Brotherus (1923) noted that T. litorea 

was related to T. saxicola Cardot on the basis of the 

mucronate apex, but the former has different basal 

cells of the leaf and a longer apiculus. This species 

could be a synonym of S. fragilis, but, in the absence of 

sporophytes, it is difficult to explore the matter further, 

and we transfer this name to the genus Syntrichia. 

22. TORTULA NAPOANA DE NOT., MEM. REALE 

ACCAD. SCI. TORINO SER. 2, 18: 450. 10. 1859 

∫ SYNTRICHIA NAPOANA (DE NOT.) COMB. NOV. 

Ind. loc.: ‘clarissimo Osculati ad flumen Napo in 

Columbiae meridionalis regionibus’ Type: ‘Culombia 

ad fl. Napo’, Osculati s.n. (holotype: RO!). 


This species is only known from the type collection. 

We have studied the holotype deposited at RO, which 

has leaves that are mucronate, fragile, lingulate, and 

bistratose in patches, with middle and upper laminal 

cells 12.5 mm wide, with bordered and plane or 

recurved up to the middle margins, sometimes bistratose, 

and with rounded or obtuse apex. The dorsal 

surface of the costa is weakly papillose, with simple 

papillae. The cross-section of the costa has no 

hydroids or they are scarcely differentiated, and has 

four dorsal stereid rows. The costa ends some cells 

under the apex. All of these gametophytic characters 

show that it is a Syntrichia species. It is similar to 

S. fragilis on the basis of the leaf shape and costa 

anatomy, but has an irregularly bistratose lamina 

and bordered leaf margins, sometime bistratose. De 

Notaris (1859), in the original description, compared 

it with B. glacialis Kunze ex Müll. Hal. [S. glacialis 

(Kunze ex Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander], but the latter has 

lingulate to lanceolate leaves, with recurved margins 

up to the upper third, and a dorsal surface of the 

costa strongly papillose, with papillae from the base 

up to the apex leaves. Therefore, T. napoana is transferred 

here to the genus Syntricha as S. napoana 

(De Not.) comb. nov. 

23. TORTULA OBSCURETIS THÉR., REVISTA CHILENA 

HIST. NAT. 22: 84, PL. 5 FIG. 3. 1918 

PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM SP. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Victoria, sur la terre (n.°28A)’. Type: ‘Chili, 

Victoria’ 1915, Campo 28A (holotype: PC!; isotype: B!). 

The original material shows stems with sclerodermis, 

revolute leaf margins from apex to near base, 

costa with crescent-shaped band of dorsal stereids, 

and yellow leaf KOH reaction. All of these characters 

clearly place this species in the genus Pseudocrossidium 

R.S. Williams. It is similar to Pseudocrossidium 

excavatum (Mitt.) R.S. Williams; however, the 

marginal laminal cells are not hyaline and thinwalled 

as in the latter species. In addition, this 

species has triangular to triangular-ovate leaves, 

upper and middle laminal cells with usually bi- or 

trifurcate papillae, apex mucronate, and marginal 

cells smaller and less papillose than the rest of the 

laminal cells. All of these characters could appear in 

Ps. leucocalyx (Mont.) Thér., however until we know 

the variability of this latter species in South America, 

it is difficult to explore the matter further. We transfer 

this name to the genus Pseudocrossidium. 

24. TORTULA PERARMATA BROTH., ACTA HORTI 

GOTHOB. 1: 192. 1924, SYN. NOV. = 

PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM LEUCOCALYX (MONT.) THÉR. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Chile: Prov. Coquimbo, Estansia Frai Jorge 

in fruticetis siccis ad terram arenosam, 215 m s. m. 


(120)’. Type: [Chile] ‘Prov. Coquimbo, Est. Frai Jorge’, 

215 m, 15.viii.1917, Skottsberg & Skottsberg 120 

(lectotype designated here: H-BR 4186 013!; isolectotypes: 

PC!, S B90629!, S B90631!, SGO!, UPS!). 

Brotherus (1924b) described T. perarmata from one 

specimen collected by Carl and Inga Skottsberg in the 

‘Svenska Pacific Expedition 1916–17’. We found syntypes 

in H-BR, S, SGO, and UPS, which represent 

duplicates from a homogeneous collection. In addition, 

one specimen sent by Brotherus with the same 

locality and date was found at PC. We chose the 

syntype kept at H-BR as the lectotype of this name. 

The original material lacks sporophytes and is 

mainly characterized by lingulate leaves, obtuserounded 

apex, leaf margins recurved from the apex to 

near the base, with smaller and smooth marginal 

cells, upper and middle laminal cells with a single, 

high, bi–trifurcate papilla, costa rough dorsally by 

prorate papillae, and yellow leaf reaction with KOH. 

All of these morphological characters appear in 

Pseudocrossidium leucocalyx although the costa 

ending in distinctive conical and smooth cells (cf. 

Zander, 1993) is only observed in some leaves. Therefore, 

we conclude that T. perarmata is conspecific with 

Ps. leucocalyx. 

25. TORTULA PERPUSILLA (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 

NAT. PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 430. 1902, 

SYN. NOV. = PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM REPLICATUM 

(TAYLOR) R.H. ZANDER 

Barbula perpusilla Müll. Hal. Linnaea 42: 348. 1879. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia Cordobensis, Cordoba, in der 

Aue im Flußande des Rio primero, Aug 1870’. Type: 

‘Argentina, Córdoba, im Rio primero’, viii.1870, 

Lorentz s.n. (lectotype designated here: PC-Thériot!). 

We have only located one syntype of this name from 

the Müller herbarium, which was deposited in the 

Theriot herbarium at PC. It is chosen as the lectotype. 

After studying the sample, it proved to be a species of 

the genus Pseudocrossidium, because it shows the 

margins strongly recurved, with marginal laminal 

cells differentiated, hyaline, and thin-walled, and sclerodemis 

developed. The leaves are linear-lingulate, 

with the basal cells near the costa rectangular and 

yellowish, and the cross-section of the costa shows a 

single band of stereids and usually four guide cells in 

one row. We have not found any differences to separate 

this material from Pseudocrossidium replicatum. 

Therefore, we consider both species conspecific. 

26. TORTULA PLANICOSTA HERZOG, MEMORANDA 

SOC. FAUNA FL. FENN. 27: 108. 1952 

PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM SP. 

Ind. Loc.: ‘Argentinia Patagonica: Südufer des Lago 

Pellegrini, Cuenca de Vidal, östlich des Rio Neuquen, 



Bahnhof Contraalmirante Cordero, leg. W. Schiller, 

25.i.22.’. Type: ‘Argent. Patagonien, S. Uffër des Lago 

Pellegrini (Cuenca de Vidal), östlich des Rio Neuquen 

bei Bhf. Contraalmirante Cordero’, 25.i.1922, Schiller 

s.n. (holotype: JE!). 

This species is characterized by its lanceolate 

leaves, yellow with KOH, with revolute margins, 

acute apex, costa excurrent into a reddish, short hairpoint, 

margins unbordered, cross-section of the costa 

elliptic to reniform with four guide cells in one layer, 

one band of dorsal stereids, and ventral and dorsal 

surface cells differentiated. The anatomy of the costa 

and the short hair-point are similar to those shown 

by species of Pseudocrossidium, such as Ps. crinitum. 

However, T. planicosta shows shorter basal laminal 

cells, a more reddish hair-point, a more acute apex, 

and more lanceolate leaves than the latter species. 

This species could be a synonym of Ps. crinitum, but, 

until we know the variability of this latter species in 

South America, it is difficult to explore the matter 

further. We transfer this name to the genus 

Pseudocrossidium. 

27. TORTULA POLYCARPA DUSÉN, ARK. BOT. 6(8): 

17, TAF. 7 FIGS 1–6. 1906, 

SYN. NOV. = HENNEDIELLA ARENAE 

(BESCH.) R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia australis ad Punta Arenas emporium. 

Patagonia occidentalis in valle fluminis Aysen 

in rupibus’. Type: [Chile] ‘Fretum magellanicum ad 

Punta Arenas emporium’, 16.xii.1895, Dusén s.n. (lectotype 

here designated: S B90646!; isolectotypes: FI!, 

PC!, UPS!). 

Dusén (1906b) cited two syntypes in the description 

of T. polycarpa. We chose the material from Punta 

Arenas kept at S as lectotype, because it is better 

preserved. The original material comprises plants 

with lingulate leaves, narrowly recurved margins, 

bordered by differentiated cells, papillose dorsal 

surface of the costa from the base to near the apex, 

cylindrical capsules with high basal membrane of the 

peristome, and anatomy of the costa similar to that 

found in Tortula. However, the KOH leaf reaction is 

red, and the margins are dentate near the apex. All of 

these characters are diagnostic of H. arenae. Therefore, 

T. polycarpa is here considered as a new 

synonym of the latter species. 

28. TORTULA POLYLEPIDIS HERZOG, BIBLIOTH. BOT. 

87: 49, FIG. 14. 1916 ∫ SYNTRICHIA POLYLEPIDIS 

(HERZOG) COMB. NOV. 

Ind. loc.: ‘An einem Polylepisstamm im Llavetal, 

c. 3800 m, no. 4874’. Type: ‘Bolivia, im Llavetal’, 

c. 3800 m, v.1911, Herzog 4874 (holotype: JE!; isotypes: 

B!, L!, M!, O!, PC!). 

This species is distinguished by its lingulate to 

spathulate leaves, recurved up to the upper third, 

with a smooth and short hair-point, apex obtuse to 

acute, margins bordered by three to five rows of 

thicker walled and less papillose cells, upper and 

middle laminal cells 7.5–10(12.5) mm wide, crosssection 

of the costa without hydroids, dorsal surface 

of the costa weakly papillose, and a short basal 

membrane of the peristome. Tortula polylepidis is 

close to S. glacialis, known from southern South 

America and the Sub-Antarctic Islands, because 

both taxa have similar leaf shape, bordered and 

recurved margins, short hair-point, and size of 

laminal cells. However, S. glacialis has a coarsely 

papillose dorsal surface of the costa from the base to 

near the apex (smooth or weakly papillose at the 

middle in T. polylepidis), basal laminal cells papillose 

(smooth in T. polylepidis), cross-section of the 

costa with two to four guide cell rows (one to two 

rows in T. polylepidis), higher basal membrane of 

the peristome than T. polylepidis, and is a dioecious 

species (T. polylepidis is synoecious). In addition, the 

costa lacks dorsal surface cells, the dorsal band of 

stereids is crescent shaped, and the laminal cells 

are red with KOH, characters typical of Syntrichia. 

Therefore, T. polylepidis is here transferred to the 

genus Syntrichia as S. polylepidis. 

29. TORTULA PSEUDOLATIFOLIA CARDOT, BULL. 

HERB. BOISSIER SÉR. 2, 5: 1003. 1905 

∫ SYNTRICHIA PSEUDOLATIFOLIA (CARDOT) 

COMB. NOV. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Terre-de-Feu: Lapataia’. Type: [Argentina] 

‘Terre-de-Feu: Lapataia’, 9.x.1902, Skottsberg s.n. 

(Svenska Sydpolarexpeditionen 1901–03 nr. 64) 

(holotype: PC-Cardot!; isotype: PC-Theriot!). 

The name gives reference to a plant appearance 

similar to that of S. latifolia (Bruch ex Hartm.) 

Huebener. According to its gametophytic characters, 

it is congeneric with this species. The type material 

has no sporophytes, and is characterized by lingulate 

to spathulate leaves, brittle, usually weakly 

constricted at the middle, with obtuse to acuminate 

apex and recurved up to the middle, bordered and 

sometimes sinuate margins, weakly papillose or 

smooth costa, excurrent in a mucro or apiculus, with 

middle and upper laminal cells 12.5–15 mm wide, 

cross-section of the costa with two to three dorsal 

stereid rows and without hydroids. The leaf 

margins, when sinuate, are usually irregularly 

pluristratose. The specified combination of characters 

is distinctive of T. pseudolatifolia, and so this 

species is transferred to the genus Syntrichia as 

S. pseudolatifolia. 


30. TORTULA PULVINATULA DUSÉN, BOT. NOT. 

1905: 300. 1905, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA 

BREVISETA (MONT.) M.J.CANO & M.T.GALLEGO, 

COMB. NOV. (SEE TORTULA BREVISETA MONT.) 

Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia septentrionalis in arboribus’. 

Type: ‘Patagonia septentrionalis, ad lac. Nahuelhuapi’, 

vii.1892, Dusén s.n. (lectotype here designated: 

PC!; isolectotype: S B100673!) 

We have studied two syntypes deposited at S and PC 

herbaria. The specimen from S is mixed with Syntrichia 

costesii (Thér.) R.H. Zander, whereas that from 

PC contains only T. pulvinatula. For this reason, we 

selected the latter as the lectotype. The leaf shape, 

plane and bordered margins, anatomy of the crosssection 

of the costa, and papillae of this specimen 

support our belief that this species is conspecific with 

S. breviseta. 

31. TORTULA SANTIAGENSIS BROTH., ACTA HORTI 

GOTHOB. 1: 191. 1924, 

SYN. NOV. = PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM EXCAVATUM 

(MITT.) R.S. WILLIAMS 

Ind. loc.: ‘Chile: Santiago, Cerro San Cristóbal; ad 

rupes calcareas (116)’. Type: ‘Chile, Santiago, Cerro 

San Cristóbal’, 600 m, Skottsberg & Skottsberg 116 

(lectotype designated here: H-BR 4186 005!; isolectotypes: 

S B90648!, UPS!). 

Brotherus (1924b) described T. santiagensis from a 

specimen collected by Carl and Inga Skottsberg in the 

‘Svenska Pacific Expedition 1916–17’. We found syntypes 

of this name at H-BR, S, and UPS, which 

represent duplicates from a homogeneous collection. 

We chose the syntype kept at H-BR as the lectotype of 

this name. 

The original material consists of small plants with 

ovate leaves, yellow leaf reaction with KOH, strongly 

revolute margins, and differentiated by hyaline, thinwalled 

cell margins, rounded to obtuse apex, costa 

percurrent, with four guide cells and perichaetial 

leaves differentiated. We conclude that there are no 


Pseudocrossidium excavatum, and so it is here 

regarded as a synonym of the latter. 

32. TORTULA SAVATIERI (BESCH.) BROTH., NAT. 

PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 433. 1902, SYN. 


Barbula savatieri Besch., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 32: 59. 

1885. Ind. loc.: ‘Pérou, Matucana (Dr Savatier, 

n°1210)’. Type: [Peru] ‘Matucana’, 19-[illegible]-1878, 

Savatier s.n. (holotype: BM-Bescherelle!; isotype: PC!). 

Bescherelle (1916) published this species on the 

basis of one collection. He compared it with the 

European Barbula alpina Bruch & Schimp., now 


known as Syntrichia sinensis (Müll. Hal.) Ochyra, as 

both had the same habitat, leaf shape, and structure 

of the peristome. However, the author distinguished 

B. savatieri by the more elongate leaves, with revolute, 

sinuate and papillose margins, and costa reddish 

and papillose at the dorsal surface, which is excurrent 

in a short mucro. The type material shows the characteristics 

exposed by Bescherelle (1916); however, 

the characters provided as differential can be 

included in the variation shown by S. fragilis. 

33. TORTULA SINUATA E.B. BARTRAM, REV. BRYOL. 

LICHÉNOL. 33: 325. 1964–65 [1965], 

SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA LACERIFOLIA 

(R. S. WILLIAMS) R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Tucuman: Department Tafi: Tafi del Valle 

2000 m, I., M. Lamb no. 12668 type; Tafi del Valle, 

Quebradita, 2300 m, M. Lillo, no. 302’. Type: [Argentina] 

‘Tucuman, Tafí del Valle’ 2000 m, Lamb 5477 (ex 

LIL no. 12668) (holotype: FH-Bartram!). 

Bartram (1965) characterized this species by its 

typical deeply sinuate or even irregularly lobed upper 

leaf margins. After studying the type material, it 

proved to be S. lacerifolia, a species known only from 

Bolivia and Peru. Therefore, this species is a new 

record for Argentina. 

34. TORTULA SORDIDA HERZOG, BIBLIOTH. BOT. 88: 

9, FIG. 4. 1920, SYN. NOV. = SYNTRICHIA ANDICOLA 

(MONT.) OCHYRA 

Ind. loc.: ‘An Lößhängen bei La Paz, c. 3600 m, 

n°2555’. Type: ‘Bolivia, La Paz’, 3600 m, ix.1911, 

Herzog 2555 (holotype: JE!). 

In the protologue, Herzog (1920) compared T. sordida 

with T. andicola Mont. (S. andicola), because 

both species show a similar dentate leaf apex. 

However, T. sordida has smaller, keeled, and lingulate 

leaves, with basal leaf cells narrower than 

T. andicola. After study of the type material, we conclude 

that these characters fall within the range of 

variation of S. andicola. In addition, the original 

material shows the distinctive combination of characters 

of this latter species: ovate to ovate-lanceolate 

leaves, with recurved margins, and a costa that ends 

below the apex but continuing again in the hair-point. 

Therefore, T. sordida is included in the list of synonyms 

of S. andicola. 

35. TORTULA SQUARRIPILA THÉR., REVISTA CHILENA 

HIST. NAT. 21: 10. PL. 2 FIG. 2. 1917. 

SYNTRICHIA SP. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Los Perales de Marga-Marga’. Type: ‘Chili, 

Los Perales, pr. Valparaiso’ 1915, Costés (illegible 

number) (holotype: PC!; isotype: W!). 



The type material is mixed with Pseudocrossidium 

crinitum (Schultz) R.H. Zander and S. princeps. In 

the original description, Thériot (1917) stated that 

T. squarripila belonged to the T. ruralis group, closely 

related to T. obtusissima (Müll. Hal.) Mitt. and 

T. chubutensis. The plants are spirally twisted when 

dry and patent when moist, with ovate to lingulate, 

not constricted leaves, emarginate to rounded apex, 

with a long, spinose and hyaline hair-point, the 

margins of the leaf are recurved up to the apex and 

not bordered, the upper and middle laminal cells are 

papillose, (7.5)10–12.5(15) mm wide, the cross-section 

of the costa has three to four dorsal stereid rows and 

hydroids, and the lamina is irregularly bistratose in 

patches in the upper and middle parts of the leaf. We 

found no difference between S. ruralis and T. squarripila, 

except for the irregularly bistratose lamina 

and the presence of hydroids in the cross-section of 

the costa of the latter. These characters are typical of 

S. caninervis (Mitt.) Broth., but the shape of the leaf, 

lamina cells, and sporophyte are different. With 

regard to the sporophyte characters, T. squarripila 

has a shorter basal membrane of the peristome than 

S. ruralis. For the moment, T. squarripila is here 

transferred to the genus Syntrichia, awaiting a 

careful study of these species and their variations 

throughout South America. 

36. TORTULA STENOPHYLLA CARDOT &BROTH., 

KONGL. SVENSKA VETENSKAPSAKAD. HANDL. 63(10): 

22. TABLE 2, FIG. 3A–E. 1923, NOM. ILLEG. (NON 

TORTULA STENOPHYLLA MITT., J. PROC. LINN. SOC., 

BOT., SUPPL. 1: 28. 1859), SYN. NOV. 

= SYNTRICHIA ANDERSSONII (ÅNGSTRÖM) 

R.H. ZANDER 

Ind. loc.: ‘Patagonia andina: Valle Frias, Cerro 

Cáceres, in declivi meridionali, 900 m s. m. (964). 

Fuegia: Ushuaia, Rio Olivia, as rupes irrigatas pr. 

cataractam (335). Specimina ibidem a cl. Skottsberg 

anno 1902 lecta (n. 66) et a cl. Cardot olim sub T. 

serrulata Hook. et Grev. memorata (Fl. bryol. terr. 

magell p. 99) teste ejusdem in sched. ad T. stenophyllam 

pertinent’. Type: [Argentina] ‘Patagonia, Valle 

Frias’, 19.xi.1908, Skottsberg 964 (lectotype designated 

here: PC!, isolectotype: UPS!). 

We have found the three syntypes mentioned in the 

protologue at PC and a sheet labelled with the 

number ‘Skottsberg 964’, which is inside of a sheet 

labelled as ‘Skottsberg 335’ at UPS. We chose the 

specimen Skottberg 964 deposited at PC as the lectotype, 

because it is better preserved. Cardot & Brotherus 

(1923) stated that T. stenophylla was a species 

close to T. serrulata Hook. & Grev., but with a different 

shape of the leaves and papillae of the costa. After 

study of the original material, it proved to be S. and- 

erssonii on the basis of its lingulate, bordered, not 

constricted, unistratose mucronate, with recurved 

margins up to the middle, and acute, sometimes 

dentate apex leaves. 

37. TORTULA XEROPHILA HERZOG, BIBLIOTH. BOT. 

87: 50, FIG. 15. 1916 PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM SP. 

Syntrichia xerophila (Herzog) S.P. Churchill, Trop. 

Bryol. 26: 129. 2005. Ind. loc.: ‘In der Dornbuchsteppe 

des Palo mit Gertrudia validinervis H., c. 1600 m; no. 

4344/a; im Trockenwald bei Perico (N.-Argentinien), c. 

400 m, no. 2622’. Type: ‘Perico (N. Argentinien)’ 

300 m, x.1910, Herzog 2622 (lectotype designated 

here: JE!; isolectotypes: B!, O!, PC!). 

In JE, where the original herbarium of Th. Herzog 

is kept, the two syntypes mentioned in the protologue 

(no. 4344/a and no. 2622) are deposited. Both have the 

characters provided in the original description, but 

the number 4344/a lacks sporophytes. Therefore, we 

chose the number 2622 as the lectotype of this name. 

Both specimens have leaves with recurved margins, 

rounded to obtuse apex, costa excurrent into a long 

hair-point, and in cross-section with four guide cells 

in one layer, one band of dorsal stereids, and ventral 

and dorsal surface cells differentiated. In addition, 

the leaves are yellow with KOH and the perichaetial 

leaves are undifferentiated. Churchill & Fuentes 

(2005) transferred this species to the genus Syntrichia 

as S. xerophila. However, the characters above 

are diagnostic of the genus Pseudocrossidium; in 

particular, the long hair-point is characteristic of 

Pseudocrossidium crinitum. Until we know the variability 

of this latter species in South America, it is 

difficult to explore the matter further. We transfer 

this name to the genus Pseudocrossidium. 

38. TORTULA UMBROSA DUSÉN, ARK. BOT. 6(10): 9, 

TAF. 3 FIGS 4–12. 1906, SYN. 

NOV. = LEPTODONTIUM PROLIFERUM HERZOG 

Ind. loc.: ‘Chile australis ad Peulle coloniam in ripa 

orientali lac. Todos los Santos sitam in terra arenosoargillosa 

silvosa’. Type: [icon] in Dusén (1906a: Taf. 3, 

figs 4–12) (lectotype designated here); epitype designated 

here: [Chile, Región IX (Aisén)] ‘Ins. Guaitecas’ 

1897, Dusén 667 (S B90941!). 

Tortula umbrosa was described by Dusén (1906a) 

on the basis of one specimen collected by the author 

in Región X (Los Lagos), Peulle, near to Lake Todos 

los Santos. After its description, no new information 

was published for this name, and it has only been 

compiled in different checklists of the area (Greene, 

1986; He, 1998). According to Stafleu & Cowan (1976), 

the original herbarium of P. Dusén is at S, and many 

duplicates of his collections have been distributed in 


numerous herbaria. For this study, we were not able 

to locate any syntypes of this name in S or in other 

herbaria studied. In S, there are housed two specimens 

of Dusén labelled ‘Tortula umbrosa’, one of them 

(S B90941) belonging to the original herbarium of P. 

Dusén. However, the locality of both specimens is 

different (‘ins. Guaitecas’) to that described in the 

protologue. 

Therefore, the only elements that are eligible for 

the typification of T. umbrosa are the illustrations 

published in the original description of Dusén (1906a: 

taf. 3 figs 4–12), which are here formally designated 

as the lectotype of this name. In these figures, most of 

the differential characters are drawn, such as the 

propaguliferous costa and the dimorphic leaves. 

However, the cross-section of the costa only shows one 

band of stereids, because it was probably drawn in 

the basal part. Because of the absence of these taxonomic 

characters in the lectotype, we designated as 

epitype the specimen labelled as ‘Tortula umbrosa’ 

from the Dusén herbarium at S in order to serve as a 

source for these missing characters. 

From the protologue and epitype, T. umbrosa is 

characterized by stems without a central strand and 

hyalodermis, KOH leaf reaction yellow, leaf margins 

dentate, and cross-section of the costa with two bands 

of stereids and an absence of ventral surface cells. All 

of these characters are present in the genus Leptodontium 

(Müll. Hal.) Hampe ex Lindb. In addition, it 

has dimorphic leaves, the lower lingulate and the 

upper with excurrent costa, which bear claviform 

propagula. Therefore, T. umbrosa is here synonymized 

with Leptodontium proliferum, a species 

reported from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru (Churchill 

et al., 2000), Mexico (Zander, 1994), and Lesotho 

(Hodgetts, Matcham & Duckett, 1999). 

TAXA FOR WHICH TYPE SPECIMENS HAVE 

NOT BEEN LOCATED 

1. TORTULA ACULEONERVIS (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 

NAT. PFLANZENFAM. 1(3): 434. 1902 

Barbula aculeonervis Müll. Hal., Linnaea 42: 349. 

1879. Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia Cordobensis, Ascochinga 

et Las Peñas cum Barbula minutirosula, Fabronia 

argentinica et Lorentzi alque Dime rotontio 

Mendozensis’. 

None of the consulted herbaria house type specimens 

of this species, and the original description is 

not explanatory with regard to the taxonomic status. 

According to Müller (1879), it probably belongs to the 

genus Syntrichia, because he placed this species in 

Barbula (Syntrichia) in the original description. In 

addition, he noted that it was similar to B. minutirosula, 

another species whose type has not been located. 


2. TORTULA APPRESSA MITT., J. LINN. SOC., BOT. 

12: 152. 1869 

Ind. loc.: ‘Chili, Lobb’. 

No original material has been found for this 

name, although it was included by Mitten (1869) in 

Tortula sect. Pachynoma Mitt., where species of 

Pseudocrossidium, Didymodon, and Bryoerythrophyllum 

were placed. According to the original description, 

it shows a similar habit to B. gracilis 

Schumach [= Didymodon acutus (Brid.) K. Saito]. In 

addition, the leaf costa is shortly excurrent, channelled, 

with revolute margins, the basal cells quadrate, 

the perichaetial leaves ovate, with acute apex, 

and the peristome teeth are contorted. Therefore, 

T. apressa could belong to some Didymodon or 

Pseudocrossidium species, in which case it should be 

excluded from the genus Tortula. 

3. TORTULA CRENATA MITT., J. LINN. SOC., BOT. 

12: 169. 1869 

Barbula crenata (Mitt.) A. Jaeger, Ber. Thätigk. St. 

Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1871–72: 441. 1873. Ind. 

loc.: ‘Andes Quitenses, Jameson’. 

According to Mitten (1869), this species was 

similar in size to T. agraria (Hedw.) P. Beauv. [Hyophiladelphus 

agrarius (Hedw.) R.H. Zander], but the 

structure of the leaf was more similar to T. denticulata 

(Wilson) Mitt. [Hennediella denticulata (Wilson) 

R.H. Zander]. We have not been able to locate any 

syntype of this name in the requested herbaria. 

However, the original description indicates that 

T. crenata has oblong-spathulate leaves in the lower 

part of the stem, with a short hair-point, and those 

from the upper part apiculate, with recurved and 

crenulated margins and with the costa ending below 

the apex. The peristome teeth are long and contorted. 

According to these characters, this taxon 

could belong to the genus Chenia. 

4. TORTULA MINUTIROSULA (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 


Barbula minutirosula Müll. Hal., Linnaea 42: 349. 

1879. Ind. loc.: ‘Patria Argentinia Cordobensis, 

Ascochinga et Las Peñas’. 

As noted before, we have not been able to locate any 

syntype in the studied herbaria of this name, and the 

original description does not provide any information 

about its taxonomic status. According to Müller 

(1879), it probably belongs to the genus Syntrichia, 

because he placed this species in Barbula (Syntrichia) 

in the original description. In addition, he indicated 

that it was similar to B. aculeonervis. 



5. TORTULA PODOCARPI (MÜLL. HAL.) BROTH., 


Barbula podocarpi Müll. Hal., Linnaea 42: 352. 1879. 

Ind. loc.: ‘Argentinia subtropica, Cuesta de Pinos, ad 

truncos Podocarpi angustifolii, inter Fabroniam 

podocarpi’. 

None of the consulted herbaria house type specimens 

of this species. The original description lacks 

diagnostic characters that inform us about its taxonomic 

status. According to Müller (1879), it probably 

belongs to the genus Syntrichia, because he placed 

this species in Barbula (Syntrichia) in the original 

description. In addition, the plant is epiphytic, 

which is more usual in species of this latter 

genus. 

INVALID NAMES 

Barbula subgraminicolor Thér., Revista Chilena Hist. 

Nat. 21: Lám.1 fig. 1. 1917, nom. inval. [art. 32.1.(c), 

Greuter et al. (2000)]. 

Barbula muralis var. australis Hampe, Bot. Zeitung 

(Berlin) 20: 349. 1862, nom. inval. [art. 34.1.(c), 


Tortula armata Broth., Biblioth. Bot. 87: 48. 1916, 

nom. inval. [art. 32.1.(c), Greuter et al. (2000)]. 

Herzog (1916) cited T. armata on the basis of four 

Bolivian collections. We have located one of these 

specimens at PC (Bolivia, Cochabamba, 3400 m, 

Waldgrenze über Tablas, v.1911, Herzog 2929), which 

proved to be Bryoerythrophyllum jamesonii (Taylor) 

H.A. Crum. 

Tortula felipponei Thér., Rev. Bryol., n.s. 2: 210. 1. 

1930, nom. inval. 

This name was reported by Index Muscorum (Wijk 

et al., 1969), but does not appear in this reference, as 

Greene (1986) also observed. Probably, it is a mistake 

for Trematodon felipponei Thér., Rev. Bryol., n.s. 2: 

210, fig. 1. 1929 [1930], which was published in Felippone 

(1930). 

Tortula longipila Dusén, Index Bryol., ed. 2, 5: 47. 

1906, nom. inval. [art. 32.1.(c), Greuter et al. 

(2000)]. 

Tortula occultilimbata Cardot, Recueil Publ. Soc. 

Havraise Études Diverses 1921: 5. 1921, nom. inval. 

[art. 34.1.(c), Greuter et al. (2000)]. 

Tortula subenervis Dusén, Index Bryol., ed. 2, 5: 59. 

1906, nom. inval. [art. 32.1.(c), Greuter et al. 

(2000)]. 

Tortula subviridula Broth. in Weberb., Pfl.-Welt 

Peruan. Anden: 397. 1945, nom. inval., [art. 32.1.(c). 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

This research was carried out with financial support 

from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science 

[projects PR2001-0293, CGL2006-00599, CGL2004- 

00788/BOS (cofinanced by FEDER), and ‘Ramón y 

Cajal’ Programme (cofinanced by the European Social 

Fund)] Fundación Séneca (02979/PI/OS) and from the 

European Union (through the COLPARSYST programme). 

We thank the staff of the Botany Department, 

University of Concepción and A. Cano 

(University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru) for their 

assistance during our field trips in Chile and Peru, 

respectively, and the curators of the herbaria cited in 

the text for the loan specimens or assistance during 

our visits to their herbaria. Thanks are also given to 

M. Laínz for the Latin diagnosis, and, in particular, to 

J. Guerra for improving the drawings and his uncompromising 

support and to J. A. Jiménez for providing 

bibliography, reading the text, and helping with the 

identification of some species. 

NOTE ADDED IN PROOF 

The interesting report of Tortula porteri (James) 

Broth. from Venezuela by Zander & Eckel (2007) was 

received too late for consideration above. The specimen 

that supports this record [BOLIVAR: Canaima, 

near la laguna, 2.ix.1976, Sharp 599b (MO)] exhibits 

the typical characters of this species: lingulate to 

oblong-ovate leaves, plane margins, usually percurrent 

costa and a well-developed marginal border of 

quadrate to rectangular, less papillose and thicker 

walled cells disposed in 3-5 rows. Tortula porteri was 

known of in North America, so this new record 

extends the distributional range significantly southward 

into northern South America. 

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INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC NAMES 

Accepted names are in roman type; the entry for the 

species included in the treatment is in bold type. 

Synonyms are in italic. 

Aloina, 174 

Aloinella, 174 


Anacalypta 

cucullata Hampe, 206 

humillima Ångström, 206 

Barbula, 174, 195, 215, 216 

aculeonervis Müll. Hal., 216 

alpina Bruch & Schimp., 213 

amphidiifolia Müll. Hal., 207 

annulus Müll. Hal., 195 

berteroana Müll. Hal., 199, 201, 206 

brunnea Müll. Hal., 208 

characodonta Müll. Hal., 209 

contorta Hampe, 209 

crenata (Mitt.) A. Jaeger, 215 

glacialis Kunze ex Müll. Hal., 211 

gracilis Schumach, 215 

graminicolor ssp. subgraminicolor Thér., 199, 201 

minutirosula Müll. Hal., 215 

muralis var. australis Hampe, nom. inval., 216 

muralis var. rupestris Schultz, 195 

muricola Müll. Hal., 195 

perpusilla Müll. Hal., 211 

peruviana (Mitt.) A. Jaeger, 204 

podocarpi Müll. Hal., 216 

savatieri Besch., 213 

subgraminicolor Thér., nom. inval., 216 

vahliana Schultz, 204 

Bryoerythrophyllum, 174, 215 

jamesonii (Taylor) H.A. Crum, 216 

Bryum 

truncatulum With., 202 

Chenia, 173, 215 

lorentzii (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander, 207 

Crossidium, 173, 191 

davidai Catches., 183 

Desmatodon, 173 

amblyophyllus Mont., 199, 201 

argentinicus Broth., 185, 188 

cernuus Huebener, 183, 188 

convolutus (Brid.) Grout, 183 

latifolius (Hedw.) Brid., 191 

Didymodon, 174, 215 

acutus (Brid.) K. Saito, 215 

schimperi (Mont.) Broth., 183 

tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa, 183 

Dolotortula, 173, 174 

Grimmia 

atrovirens Turner ex Sm., 181 

Gymnostomum 

truncatum Hedw., 202 

Hennediella, 173, 174, 191 

arenae (Besch.) R.H. Zander, 212 

bellii (E.B. Bartram) R.H. Zander, 201 

denticulata (Wilson) R.H. Zander, 215 

diaguita R.H. Zander & Mahú, 188, 191 

heimii (Hedw.) R.H. Zander, 206 


Hilpertia, 173 

Hyophiladelphus, 174 

agrarius (Hedw.) R.H. Zander, 215 

Leptodontium, 215 

proliferum Herzog, 214, 215 

Microbryum, 206 

davallianum (Sm.) R.H. Zander, 206, 207 

Oreoweisia 

erosa (Hampe ex Müll. Hal.) Kindb., 206 

Phascum, 174, 175 

acaulon With., 175 

calodictyon Müll. Hal., 176, 179 

cuspidatum Hedw., 173, 174, 175, 178, 179 

Pottia, 173, 174, 175 

altipes Broth., 206 

asperula Mitt., 207 

asperula Müll. Hal. ex Broth., nom. illeg., 207 

chubutensis Cardot & Broth., 206 

cucullata (Hampe) A. Jaeger, 206 

humillima (Ångström) Paris, 206 

intermedia (Turner) Fürnr., 204 

ligularifolia Müll. Hal., 207 

physcomitrioides Müll. Hal., 202, 204 

truncata (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp., 202 

truncatula (With.) Büse, nom. illeg., 202 

uleana Paris, 207 

Pseudocrossidium, 174, 202, 211, 212, 214, 215 

crinitum (Schultz) R.H. Zander, 202, 212, 214 

excavatum (Mitt.) R.S. Williams, 211, 213 

leucocalyx (Mont.) Thér., 211 

replicatum (Taylor) R.H. Zander, 211 

Pterygoneurum, 173, 174 

Sagenotortula, 173, 174 

Stegonia, 173 

Stonea, 173 

Syntrichia, 173, 174, 195, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 

212, 213, 214, 215, 216 

anderssonii (Ångström) R.H. Zander, 214 

andicola (Mont.) Ochyra, 213 

bartramii (Steere) R.H. Zander, 208 

bogotensis Hampe) R.H. Zander, 209 

breviseta (Mont.) comb. nov., 207, 208, 213 

buchtienii (Herzog) comb. nov., 208 

caninervis (Mitt.) Broth., 214 

costesii (Thér.) R.H. Zander, 213 

flagellaris (Schimp.) R.H. Zander, 209 

fragilis (Taylor) Ochyra, 208, 210, 211, 213 

glacialis (Kunze ex Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander, 211, 

212 

jaffuelii (Thér.) R.H. Zander, 193 

lacerifolia (R. S. Williams) R.H. Zander, 213 

latifolia (Bruch ex Hartm.) Huebener, 212 

limensis (R.S. Williams) R.H. Zander, 198 

montana var. calva (Durieu & Sagot) J.J. Amann, 

208 



napoana (De Not.) comb. nov., 210, 211 

percarnosa (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander, 209 

polylepidis (Herzog) comb. nov., 212 

princeps (De Not.) Mitt., 209, 214 

pseudolatifolia (Cardot) comb. nov., 212 

ruralis (Hedw.) F. Weber & D. Mohr, 208, 209, 

214 

ruralis var. spiralis (Herzog) R.H. Zander, 208 

sinensis (Müll. Hal.) Ochyra, 213 

xerophila (Herzog) S.P. Churchill, 214 

Tortella, 174 

Tortula, 173, 174, 175, 191, 195, 206, 212, 215 

acaulon (With.) R.H. Zander, 174, 175, 179 

aculeonervis (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 215 

aestiva (Brid. ex Hedw.) P. Beauv., 195 

agraria (Hedw.) P. Beauv., 215 

amblyophylla (Hook.) Mitt., 199 

amblyophylla (Mont.) Thér., nom. illeg., 199 

amphidiifolia (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 207 

andicola Mont., 213 

annulus (Müll. Hal.) Broth. ex Paris, 195, 198 

appressa Mitt., 215 

arequipensis sp. nov., 179, 181 

argentinica (Broth.) R.H. Zander, 185 

armata Broth., nom. inval., 216 

atherodes R.H. Zander, nom. inval., 179 

atrata Thér., 207 

atrovirens (Turner ex Sm.) Lindb., 174, 181, 183 

atrovirens var. brevifolia Thér., 181, 183 

berteroana (Müll. Hal.) Broth. ex Paris, nom. 

illeg., 199 

berteroana Mitt. nom. illeg., 199 

berthoana Thér., 207, 208 

bogosica (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander, 195 

brevipes (Lesq.) Broth., 201 

breviseta Mont., 207, 208 

brunnea (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 208 

buchtienii Herzog, 208 

bullata (Sommerf.) Lindb., 208 

bullata Herzog, nom. illeg., 208 

cernua (Huebener) Lindb., 183, 188 

characodonta (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 209 

chrysophyla (Müll. Hal.) Paris, 209 

chubutensis Dusén, 209, 214 

contorta (Hampe) Mont., 174, 209 

crenata Mitt., 174, 215 

denticulata (Wilson) Mitt., 215 

diaguita (R.H. Zander & Mahú) comb. nov., 188 

epilosa Broth. ex Dusén, 210 

felipponei Thér., nom. inval., 216 

ferruginea E.B. Bartram, 209 

flavipes (Bruch & Schimp.) Wilson, 199 

flavipes Broth., 199, 201 

fragillima Herzog, 210 

hoppeana (Schultz) Ochyra, 191, 193 

jaffuelii Thér., 193, 195 

laevinervis Broth. ex Dusén, 210 

ligulata Herzog, 210 

litorea Cardot & Broth., 210 

longipila Dusén, nom. inval., 198, 216 

minima Herzog, 181, 183 

minutirosula (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 215 

modica R.H. Zander, 204 

mucronifolia Schwägr., 181 

muralis Hedw., 174, 195, 198, 199, 201 

muralis var. aestiva Brid. ex Hedw., 195 

muralis var. longipila Dusén, 195, 198 

muricola (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., 174, 195 

napoana De Not., 210, 211 

obscuretis Thér, 211 

obtusissima (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., 214 

occultilimbata Cardot, nom. inval., 216 

perarmata Broth., 211 

perpusilla (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 211 

peruviana Mitt., 174, 204, 205, 206 

planicosta Herzog, 211, 212 

platyphylla Mitt., 174, 199, 201, 202, 206 

podocarpi (Müll. Hal.) Broth., 216 

polycarpa Dus., 212 

polylepidis Herzog, 212 

pseudolatifolia Cardot, 212 

pulvinatula Dusén, 213 

purpureo-velutina Herzog, 199, 202 

ruralis (Hedw.) P. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb., 

209, 214 

santiagensis Broth., 213 

savatieri (Besch.) Broth., 213 

saxicola Cardot, 210 

serrulata Hook. & Grev., 214 

sinuata E.B. Bartram, 213 

sordida Herzog, 213 

squarripila Thér., 213, 214 

stenophylla Cardot & Broth., nom. illeg., 214 

stenophylla Mitt., 214 

subenervis Dusén, nom. inval., 216 

subulata Hedw., 175 

subviridula Broth., 216 

truncata (Hedw.) Mitt., 202, 204 

umbrosa Dusén, 214, 215 

vahliana (Schultz) Mont., 204, 205, 206 

xerophila Herzog, 214 

Trematodon 

felipponei Thér., 216 

Trichostomum, 174 

amblyophyllum (Mont.) Müll. Hal., 199 

hoppeanum Schultz, 191 

schimperi Mont., 183 

Weissia 

cucullata (Hampe) Mitt., nom. illeg., 206 

cucullata Müll. Hal., 206 

Zanderia 

octoblepharis (A. Jaeger) Goffinet, 207

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