Introduction

Phylogenetic classification

Hedwigiaceae

Keys to genera

Braunia

Hedwigia

Hedwigidium

Pseudobraunia

Bibliography

Braunia.

List of species and synonyms.

Provisional key.

List of all names (alphabetical)

A provisional list of the main synonyms for the 23 recognized species of Braunia worldwide

[updated, april 2021]

Species with upper leaf cells narrow-elongate (3-5:1), cell walls very sinuous; leaf apex gradually differentiated, acuminate to subulate; leaf lamina mostly flat:

B. nephelogenes De Luna & W.R.Buck

B. attenuata (Mitt.) A.Jaeger

                B. delavayi Besch.

B. cirrhifolia (Mitt.) A.Jaeger

B. squarrulosa (Hampe) Müll.Hal.

           Braunia sphaerocarpa Müll.Hal.

           Braunia liebmanniana (Müll.Hal.) Besch.

B. secunda (Hook.) Bruch & Schimp.

B. rupestris (Mitt.) A.Jaeger

           Braunia brachytheca (Dixon) Broth.

B. subplicata E.Britton

Species with upper leaf cells quadrate, or rectangular (1-2:1), cell walls slightly sinuous; leaf apex sharply differentiated, mucronate, or cuspidate; leaf lamina concave.

Leaf acumen hyaline

B. plicata (Mitt.) A.Jaeger

       Braunia plicata var. canescens Cardot

B. canescens Schimp. ex E.Britton

       B. argyrotricha Müll.Hal.

B. incana Müll.Hal.

B. subincana Broth.

       B. laxifolia Herzog

B. diaphana (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger

B. arbuscula (Welw. & Duby) A.Gepp.

       B. secunda var. sekistos (Welw. & Duby) A.Gepp.

Leaf acumen concolorous

B. entodonticarpa Müll.Hal.

B. camptoclada P. de la Varde &Thér., 

B. schimperi Bruch & Schimp.

B. macropelma (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger

           B. subsecunda Schimp.

           B. indica Paris

Seta short (3-5 mm)

B. exserta Müll.Hal.

B. reflexifolia (Müll.Hal.) E.B.Bartram

           B. divaricatula Herzog

           B. cochlearifolia Müll.Hal.

B. tucumanensis Biasuso

Leaves ovate or ovate lanceolate, imbricate:

B. alopecura (Brid.) Limpr.

           Braunia sciuroides (Bals.-Criv. & De Not.) Bruch & Schimp.

B. andrieuxii Lorentz

B. argentinica Müll.Hal.