identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
5D98C1E7493D59E2B72E807BA0F0DBA1.text	5D98C1E7493D59E2B72E807BA0F0DBA1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fissidens pokhrensis S. S. Kumar	<div><p>Fissidens pokhrensis Nork. ex S. S. Kumar, Miscellanea Bryologica et Lichenologica 8 (6): 120. 1979.</p><p>Fig. 2</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Fissidens pokhrensis is characterized by its small plant size, oblong to oblong-obovate leaves with acute apices, bryoides-type costae ending 7–19 cells below the apex, pluripapillose laminal cells, and limbidia restricted to the vaginant laminae of perichaetial leaves. This species morphologically resembles F. gardneri Mitt. and F. pallidinervis Mitt. in possessing pluripapillose laminal cells and similar limbidium distribution. However, F. pokhrensis is distinguished by its distinctly acute leaf apices, whereas F. gardneri and F. pallidinervis typically exhibit broadly acute, obtuse, or rounded apices.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Plants small, green to yellowish green. Shoots single or occasionally branched, 2.0– 2.7 mm long, 1.0– 1.3 mm wide, with 8–12 pairs of leaves. Stem cortical cells in cross section small and thick-walled, central strand slightly differentiated. Axillary hyaline nodules not differentiated. Leaves curled when dry; lower ones small and remote, upper ones larger and more densely arranged, oblong to oblong-obovate, 0.6–0.8 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, apex acute; base of dorsal lamina rounded to wedge-shaped, not decurrent; vaginant laminae ca. 1 / 2 of leaf length, unequal; vegetative leaves elimbate; costae ending 7–19 cells below apex, bryoides-type in cross section, often slightly bent at junction of vaginant laminae; margin irregularly serrulate by projecting cells; laminal cells irregularly quadrate to hexagonal, (5 –) 6–8 (– 11) μm across, thin-walled, pluripapillose, with 4–6 papillae at the corners. Perichaetia and perigonia not seen. Sporophytes not seen.</p><p>Specimens examined</p><p>. China • Yunnan Province, Baoshan City, Longyang District, Mangkuan Township, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.800415&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.309284" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.800415/lat 25.309284)">Hanlong Village</a>; 25°18.557'N, 98°48.025'E; elev. 1575 m; 25 Aug. 2023; W. Ye &amp; Z.-G. Yang 20230825-03; on tree trunk near the tree base; AU .</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>New to China (Yunnan). Also known from India (Kumar 1979; Daniels and Daniel 2013; Manjula et al. 2022; Neethu et al. 2024), Japan (Suzuki 2017), and Myanmar (Bruggeman-Nannenga and Müller 2020).</p><p>Notes.</p><p>The Chinese specimen is identified as F. pokhrensis based on several key gametophytic characters consistent with the protologue (Kumar 1979). Most notably, it is small in stature, with pluripapillose laminal cells and vaginant laminae extending approximately half of the total leaf length. The leaves are oblong to oblong-obovate (described as ovate-lingulate in Kumar 1979), with the costa ending more than five cells below the acute apex. Although no perichaetial leaves are available to check for a differentiated limbidium along the vaginant laminae, the complete absence of a limbidium on all available vegetative leaves, combined with the aforementioned character states and the epiphytic habitat, provides a robust basis for this identification.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D98C1E7493D59E2B72E807BA0F0DBA1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Zi-Qi;Ke, An-Ran;Ho, Boon-Chuan;Wang, Shun-Li;Wei, Yu-Mei;Ye, Wen	Liu, Zi-Qi, Ke, An-Ran, Ho, Boon-Chuan, Wang, Shun-Li, Wei, Yu-Mei, Ye, Wen (2026): Discovery of Fissidens pokhrensis (Fissidentaceae) in China and an updated key to Chinese species with semilimbate leaves and papillose or mammillose laminal cells. PhytoKeys 276: 25-33, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.276.187004
