A new species of Acaulon Müll. Hal. (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) from Argentina with apiculate capsules

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Acknowledgements

The Missouri Botanical Garden is saluted for its continued encouragement of bryological research. The illustration and Latin diagnosis were prepared by Patricia M. Eckel.

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No potential conflict of interest were reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was supported by the Argentinian National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Fund for Scientific and Technological Research Project PICT 2016-0810, Research Project of the National University of Tucumán PIUNT G631.

Notes on contributors

Richard H. Zander

Richard H. Zander is a research associate at the Department of Science and Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA. From 1970 to 2000, he was Curator of Botany at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York. He has specialised in the taxonomy and evolution of the large moss family Pottiaceae, characteristic of disturbed, dry and otherwise harsh environments. Presently, his research focus is on analytical techniques in macroevolutionary systematics.

Guillermo M. Suárez

Guillermo M. Suárez is a professor at the Departamento de Biología, National University of Tucumán, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, and an associate research scientist at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). His botanical research presently focuses on the moss genus Philonotis in southern South America, and on the moss flora of Paraguay.

Soledad Jimenez

Soledad Jimenez is a research professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agrimensura, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (IBONE-CONICET-UNNE), in Corrientes, Argentina. She works with Dr Suárez on the biosystematics and phylogeny of the moss genus Philonotis in southern South America, and specialises in the floristics of the bryophyte flora of Uruguay.