Notes on genera Macromitrium Bridel and Entodon C. Muell. (Bryophyta) in Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve (Central India)

  • A. K. Asthana Bryology Laboratory, CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India
  • Reesa Gupta Bryology Laboratory, CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Abstract

Macromitrium Bridel and Entodon C. Muell., two important pleurocarpous moss
genera with four species viz., Macromitrium moorcroftii (Hooker and Gerv.) Schwägr.,
Macromitrium sulcatum (Hooker) Bridel, Entodon laetus (Griffith) A. Jaeger and Entodon
nepalensis Mizushima are described from Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve of central India.
Entodon nepalensis is new to India in the present state of our knowledge and the rest
except Macromitrium sulcatum are new addition to the moss flora of Pachmarhi
Biosphere Reserve. All the four species are rupicolous and well adapted to lower
elevation and higher temperatures prevalent at the central Indian belt.
Keywords: Central India, Entodon, Macromitrium, Mosses.

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