Fissidens linearis var. obscuriretis (Broth. & Paris) I.G.Stone

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Myanmar, Kachin State, Hponkan Razi, evergreen broadleaved rainforest, epiphytic, 1048 m, 27.561667N, 97.108695E, 27.X.2014, J. Kluge & P. K. Kine 14-054-001d-A (DR, private herbarium Bruggeman-Nannenga).

REMARKS

The taxon was described as Fissidens obscuriretis Broth. & Paris from New Caledonia (Brotherus 1909) and was later transferred to the rank of a variety of F. linearis Brid. by Stone (1991).

The taxa has previously been reported from Australia (e.g. Stone 1991; Cairns et al. 2019), China (Li 1985; Redfearn et al. 1996), Fiji (Iwatsuki & Suzuki 1996), Korea (Li & Iwatsuki 2001), Japan (Iwatsuki 1991), New Caledonia (type), Taiwan (Li & Iwatsuki 2001), New Hebrides, Vanuatu (Iwatsuki & Suzuki 1995), Papua New Guinea (Suzuki & Iwatsuki 2011), and Philippines (Tan & Iwatsuki 1991).

A record from India (Manjula et al. 2015) seems to be Fissidens speluncae Herzog.