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Diversity and Classification of Bryophytes
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Diversity and Classification of Bryophytes

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2739

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Dr. Vítězslav Plášek

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Department of Biology & Ecology, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Interests: taxonomy and ecology of bryophytes; phytogeography of epiphytic bryophytes
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Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue 'Diversity and Classification of Bryophytes' aims to delve into the intricate world of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, exploring their vast diversity and ecological significance. Contributions to this issue can span phytogeographical questions, ecological investigations, taxonomic studies, or even evolutionary relationships within bryophyte lineages.

We invite researchers to submit original research articles shedding light on the diversity and classification of bryophytes. From morphological descriptions to molecular phylogenetics, this Special Issue will synthesize diverse approaches to comprehensively understand the taxonomy and evolutionary history of bryophytes.

This focus can extend beyond taxonomy, highlighting the ecological roles of bryophytes in various habitats, demonstrating their importance in ecosystems worldwide. Overall, this Special Issue aims to bridge the gap between traditional taxonomy and modern molecular techniques, presenting a holistic view of bryophyte diversity and classification.

Contributions elucidating the biogeography and distribution patterns of bryophyte taxa across different regions and environments are encouraged. Insights into the adaptive strategies, reproductive biology, and physiological adaptations of bryophytes will be essential to comprehending their diversity and classification.

Proposed manuscripts can emphasize the significance of bryophyte diversity in ecological processes, conservation, and ecosystem functioning. Studies investigating cryptic species, hybridization events, and their implications in bryophyte diversity will add depth to our understanding of their classification.

Manuscripts that address the impacts of environmental changes, such as climate change and habitat degradation, on bryophyte diversity are highly valued. This Special Issue will prioritize manuscripts offering novel perspectives, experimental approaches, and synthesizing existing knowledge in bryophyte diversity and classification.

Dr. Vítězslav Plášek
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Keywords

  • bryophytes
  • diversity
  • taxonomy
  • distribution
  • ecology

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On the Cryptic Speciation in the Mosses with East Asia–East North America Disjunction: A Case Study of Two Poorly Understood Mosses from the Southern Extremity of the Russian Far East
by Vladimir E. Fedosov, Olga Yu. Pisarenko, Alina V. Fedorova, Olga M. Afonina and Elena A. Ignatova
Plants 2024, 13(24), 3558; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13243558 - 20 Dec 2024
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A survey of the moss flora of the southernmost part of the Russian Primorsky Territory yielded several intriguing taxa, whose identity is assessed herein based on an integrative morpho-molecular approach. Bellibarbula recurva was previously known in inland Asia only from the Sino-Himalayan region and [...] Read more.
A survey of the moss flora of the southernmost part of the Russian Primorsky Territory yielded several intriguing taxa, whose identity is assessed herein based on an integrative morpho-molecular approach. Bellibarbula recurva was previously known in inland Asia only from the Sino-Himalayan region and the new locality is distant from the earlier known ones to ca. 3000 km. Despite the morphological uniformity, Russian specimens are remarkably distinct in sequences of all three obtained DNA markers, approaching an American specimen in the rps4 sequence. Another probable relic, Symblepharis cf. crispifolia, appeared to be fairly common in the southern part of the Primorsky Territory, where low mountains are covered with hard-leaved forests. Russian specimens of Symblepharis cf. crispifolia var. brevipes show significant divergence from S. crispifolia s.str., which also has complex phylogenetic structure, obscuring further taxonomic implications. The description and illustrations of both taxa based on Russian specimens are provided, and the area, where both species occur, is briefly characterized; it includes numerous thermophilous species, which are rare or do not occur northwards. Our case study uncovers the problem of cryptic speciation within species distributed in temperate climate and is considered to represent relics of Arcto-Tertiary flora. Full article
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Molecular Phylogenetics and the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Aytoniaceae (Marchantiophyta)
by You-Liang Xiang, Chao Shen, Wen-Zhang Ma and Rui-Liang Zhu
Plants 2024, 13(8), 1053; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13081053 - 9 Apr 2024
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Aytoniaceae are one of the largest families of complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida), consisting of about 70 species, with most species being distributed in temperate areas. However, the phylogeny and evolution of the morphological character of Aytoniaceae are still poorly understood. Here, we employed [...] Read more.
Aytoniaceae are one of the largest families of complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida), consisting of about 70 species, with most species being distributed in temperate areas. However, the phylogeny and evolution of the morphological character of Aytoniaceae are still poorly understood. Here, we employed two chloroplast loci, specifically, rbcL and trnL-F, along with a 26S nuclear ribosomal sequence to reconstruct the phylogeny and track the morphological evolution of Aytoniaceae. Our results reveal that Aytoniaceae are monophyletic, and five monophyletic clades were recovered (i.e., Asterellopsis-Cryptomitrium, Calasterella, Mannia, Reboulia-Plagiochasma, and Asterella). Asterella was divided into five clades (i.e., Asterella lindenbergiana, subg. Saccatae, subg. Phragmoblepharis, subg. Wallichianae, and subg. Asterella), except for Asterella palmeri, which is the sister of Asterellopsis grollei. Bayesian molecular clock dating indicates that the five primary clades within Aytoniaceae underwent divergence events in the Cretaceous period. Asterellopsis differentiated during the early Upper Cretaceous (c. 84.2 Ma), and Calasterella originated from the late Lower Cretaceous (c. 143.0 Ma). The ancestral Aytoniaceae plant is reconstructed as the absence of a pseudoperianth, lacking equatorial apertures, and having both male and female reproductive organs on the main thallus. At present, Asterellopsis consists of two species known in Asia and America with the new transfer of Asterella palmeri to Asterellopsis. A new subgenus, Asterella subg. Lindenbergianae, is proposed. Full article
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