TITLE	Wijkia tanytricha (Mont.) Crum (Musci, Sematophyllaceae), a new record to the moss flora of Taiwan
AUTHOR	Tzen-Yuh Chiang Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115, Republic of China
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ABSTRACT	Wijkia tanytricha (Mont.) Crum is a new record to the moss flora of Taiwan. The species is distinguished from W. deflexifolium (Ren. & Card.) Crum, the other species of Wijkia in Taiwan, and characterized by having broadly ovate leaves with a long, filiform acumen and enlarged alar cells. Wijkia tanytricha, distributed in southeast Asia, is related to W. carlottae, a Canadian species, in sharing foliose pseudoparaphyllia and leaf shape. No qualitative characteristics can distinguish these two taxa, although the plants, leaves, and leaf cells of Wijkia tanytricha are larger than those of W. carlottae. I suppose that W. carlottae may be conspecific with W. tanytricha.
KEYWORD	New record; Taiwan; Wijkia; Wijkia tanytricha; Wijkia carlottae;
ARTICLE INFO	Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 37 Number 2 April 1996, page 147-150, 4 pages
PUBLISHER	Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China