A study of Drepanolejeunea subg. Rhaphidolejeunea (Herzog) Grolle and R.L. Zhu, stat. nov. (Hepaticae, Lejeuneaceae) in China with notes on its species elsewhere

Riclef Grolle, Rui Liang Zhu

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Abstract

Rhaphidolejeunea Herzog is reduced to a subgenus of Drepanolejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn. In China the subgenus comprises six species: D. commutata Grolle and R.L. Zhu (sp. nov.). D. cyclops (Sande Lac.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu (comb. nov.), D. cf. fleischeri (Steph.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu (comb. nov.), D. foliicola Horik., D. spicata (Steph.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu (comb. nov.), and D. yunnanensis (P.C. Chen) Grolle and R.L. Zhu (comb. nov.). An epitype is designated for clarifying the meaning of the latter one. Drepanolejeunea commutata is similar to D. yunnanensis in male bracteoles present throughout the androecium, but differs in its free lateral margin of the leaf lobule bordered by four strongly elongate rectangular cells. D. cyclops is excluded from the Chinese bryoflora. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Chinese species and a key to the species known worldwide are presented. Further five new combinations are proposed: Drepanolejeunea bischlerae (Grolle) Grolle and R.L. Zhu, D. cyclops (Sande Lac.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu, D. longicruris (Steph.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu, D. polyrhiza (Nees) Grolle and R.L. Zhu, and D. siamensis (Bischl.) Grolle and R.L. Zhu.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-396
Number of pages24
JournalNova Hedwigia
Volume70
Issue number3-4
StatePublished - 2000

Keywords

  • Drepanolejeunea cf. fleischeri
  • Drepanolejeunea commutata
  • Drepanolejeunea cyclops
  • Epiphyllous liverworts
  • Epitype
  • New combinations
  • New records
  • New species

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