Original paper
A new species of Lejeunea Lib. (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) from Bahia, Brazil
Bastos, Cid José Passos; Gentil, Adriele Lima
Nova Hedwigia Band 119 Heft 3-4 (2024), p. 287 - 294
20 references
published: Dec 12, 2024
published online: Nov 14, 2024
manuscript accepted: Sep 25, 2024
final revised version received: Aug 28, 2024
manuscript revision requested: Aug 8, 2024
manuscript received: Jun 28, 2024
DOI: 10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2024/1021
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Abstract
The new species Lejeunea elegans from Brazil is described and illustrated. This species is characterized by plane, asymmetrically ovate leaf lobes with entire to crenulate margins and a narrowly rounded to short-apiculate apex, and acute, gynoecial bract lobes asymmetrically ovate gynoecial bract lobes. The specimen was found in a humid forest at 575 m in Bahia (Northeastern Brazil), growing on living leaves. The new species is morphologically most similar to the Afro-Asian L. pulchriflora but the cuticle is smooth in the new species and papillose in L. pulchriflora.
Keywords
Leafy liverworts • taxonomy • Atlantic Forest • Neotropics