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Published In: Linnaea 39: 429. 1875. (Linnaea) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Wijk et al. (1967) listed 25 species in Schwetschkea in the world. Recently, Crosby et al. (2000) recognized 18 species with only one better understood and 17 less-known species. Most of these species are often briefly mentioned in a checklist or treated by a local flora. P.-C. Chen et al. (1978) reported 8 species of Schwetschkea and Koponen (1978) recognized 10 species in China. In this treatment, five species are treated.

 

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9. Schwetschkea C. Müll. 附干藓属 fu-gan xian shu
Linnaea 39: 429. 1875.
 
Plants slender to very slender, green, slightly glossy, in interwoven patches. Stems creeping, ascending at apex; usually pinnately branched; branches short, erect or erecto-patent, curved when dry; rhizoids in bundle; central strand not differentiated. Leaves dense, erect, sometimes secund when dry, erecto-patent when moist, ovate- lanceolate, acuminate above; leaf margins plane, serrulate; costa single, weak, ending in the middle of leaf; leaf cells oblong-elliptic or oblong-hexagonal; basal cells broader; alar cells quadrate, in several rows. Autoicous. Inner perichaetial leaves ovate-lanceolate, suddenly narrowed to a piliferous apex. Setae delicate, twisted when dry, reddish brown, rough or smooth above; capsules erect, oblong ovoid, constricted below the mouth when dry; opercula conic, with a long, oblique beak; annuli differentiated; peristome double; exostome teeth lanceolate, yellowish brown, somewhat lamellate below the middle, smooth, papillose above; endostome segments narrowly lanceolate, as long as exostome teeth, keeled, papillose; basal membrane low or moderately high; cilia absent. Spores medium-sized.
 
 
 

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1. Leaves and branches erect................................................................................................2
1. Leaves and branches secund.............................................................................................3
2. Peristome teeth absent..................................................................3. S. gymnostoma
2. Peristome teeth present................................................................ 5. S. sinica
3. Plants rather thick; branches 4–5 mm long; setae yellowish brown...................4. S. laxa
3. Plants slender; branches 3–4 mm long; setae reddish brown.........................................4
4. Setae short, up to 1.1 mm long........................................................1. S. brevipes
4. Setae rather long, 2–3 mm long.......................................................2. S. courtoisii
 
 
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