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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-07-10
Page range: 69–70
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Lejeunea apiahyna, a new synonym of Lejeunea cristuliflora (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta)

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Laboratório de Taxonomia de Briófitas – BrioFLORA, Campus Universitário de Ondina, 40170-280 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Liverworts taxonomy neotropics Bryophytes

Abstract

Lejeuneaceae is the largest liverwort family with more than 1800 species in about 70 genera (Zhu et al. 2017). Lejeunea Libert (1820: 373) is the second largest genus of Lejeuneaceae with many taxa poorly known (He et al. 2012). Lejeunea apiahyna (Stephani 1914: 514) Singh (2013: 63) is one of those poorly known species and is known only from Brazil. It was described by Stephani (1914) as Otigoniolejeunea apiahyna Stephani (1914: 514) based on J. Puiggari’s collection from the State of São Paulo, Brazil, and transferred to the genus Lejeunea by Singh (2013). According to Wei et al. (2014), Otigoniolejeunea Spruce (1884: 77) is represented by only two ocellus containing species: Otigoniolejeunea huctumalcensis (Lindenberg & Gottsche in Gottsche et al. 1847: 762) Wei et al. (2014: 237), and Otigoniolejeunea portoricensis (Hampe & Gottsche 1853: 352) Wei et al. (2014: 237).