Book ID: 90984
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
BRYOPHYTORUM BIBLIOTHECA
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                Volume 063: Long, David G.: Revision of the Genus Asterella P. Beauv. in Eurasia. 2006. 50 figs. 10 tabs. 299 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    The revision demonstrates a major advance in knowledge of Eurasian ASTERELLA: extensive reduction in names due to past over-descriptions;the existence of two undescribed species; the importance of characters such as sexual condition and spore ornamentation, and the plasticit yof many quantitative characters; clarification of phytogeography with a number of localised endemics and several wide spread taxa.