Koponen, T. Notes on Philonotis (Bartramiaceae, Musci). 14. Philonotis angustiretis,
species nova, from N.W. Himalaya
Arctoa (2015) 24: 24-26
doi: 10.15298/arctoa.24.04
Philonotis
angustiretis is described. It is known only from one specimen collected in N.W.
Himalaya and named on the label of a herbarium specimen as a new species by
V.F. Brotherus. It belongs to Philonotis section Philonotula, and
its closest relatives are the species grouped in the neighborhood of Philonotis
thwaitesii Mitt. These species have the leaves broadest at base, revolute
basal leaf borders, papillae at the distal ends of laminal cells, and the
capsule horizontal to nodding with a complete peristome. It differs from these
species in being much smaller and having different laminal cell areolation.