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Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-17
Page range: 15–20
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Cheilolejeunea amazonica (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta), a new tepui species from northern Brazil

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Laboratório de Taxonomia de Briófitas – BrioFLORA, Campus Universitário de Ondina, 40170-280 Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo Aleixo, Caixa Postal 478, 69060001 Manaus, Brasil.
Amazonia tepui Cheilolejeuneinea Bryophytes Brazil

Abstract

Cheilolejeunea amazonica, a new species currently known only from one outlying sandstone tepui of the Guiana Highlands in northern Brazil, Serra Aracá, is described and illustrated. This new taxon is phenotypically aligned with Cheilolejeunea Sect. Strepsilejeunea due to its sharply pointed leaf apex. Locally, the plant is abundant growing in large mats on vertical sandstone seeps along streams draining the northeastern flanks of this tepui.