Published July 29, 2022 | Version v1
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Lejeunea cancellata Nees & Mont.

  • 1. Herbario Nacional, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Apartado 749 - 1000, San José (Costa Rica) adriaendauphin @ gmail. com
  • 2. Meise Botanic Garden, 1060 Meise (Belgium) and Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205) Sorbonne Université (MNHN, EPHE, CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 39, 75005 Paris (France) sgradst @ gwdg. de
  • 3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Apartado 0843 - 03092, Balboa, Ancón (Panama) salazarn @ si. edu (corresponding author)

Description

Lejeunea cancellata Nees & Mont.

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Panama. Barro Colorado Island, Gradstein & Salazar Allen 15090.

HABITAT. — On tree trunks.

DISTRIBUTION. — Tropical America.

REMARKS

This species is characterized by the rounded to apiculate leaf apex, leaf cells with homogeneous oil bodies, small lobules, underleaves wider than long and c. 4-5× stem width, dioicy, gynoecia two in a row on short branches, and vegetative reproduction by caducous branches (Gradstein 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Dauphin, Gregorio, Gradstein, S. Robbert & Allen, Noris Salazar, 2022, Liverworts and hornworts of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, pp. 153-165 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (9) on page 159, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2022v43a9, http://zenodo.org/record/7822573

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lejeuneaceae
Genus
Lejeunea
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Porellales
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Scientific name authorship
Nees & Mont.
Species
cancellata
Taxon rank
species

References

  • GRADSTEIN S. R. 2021. - The liverworts and hornworts of Colombia and Ecuador. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 121: 1 - 723. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 49450 - 6