Ochyraea tatrensis

Stech, M. and Frahm, J.-P. (2001) The systematic position of Ochyraea tatrensis (Hypnobartlettiaceae, Bryopsida) based on molecular data. Bryologist, 104 199-203. 

Vina, J. (1986) Ochyraea tatrensis gen. et spec, nov., a remarkable pleurocarpous moss from Czechoslovakia. Journal of Bryology, 14 261-267. 

The type species of Ochyraea, O. tatrensis was found in a clade with O. smithii with high support (Nona 99% MB 100%). Relationship of these species was found previously by Stech and Frahm (2001), and some morphological characters, for example pseudoparaphylUa, are very similar in these two species. Interestingly, the opinion of R. Duell (Ochyra, personal communication) on the holotype of Ochyraea tatrensis was that this is just au aberraut form of Hygrohypnum smithii. A clade with Drepanium recurvatum and Tomentypnum nitens was found also by Tsubota et al. (2004). These two species were the only representatives of this clade in that analysis of approximately 600 species of mosses. 

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