A new species of Ceratolejeunea Jack &amp; Steph. (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) from Brazil

CID JOSÉ PASSOS BASTOS; SILVANA B. VILAS BÔAS-BASTOS

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.394.1.11

Issue: Vol. 394 No. 1: 25 February 2019

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2019-02-25

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.394.1.11

Page range: 119–122

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**A new species of Ceratolejeunea Jack & Steph. (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) from Brazil**

CID JOSÉ PASSOS BASTOS⁺⁻
SILVANA B. VILAS BÔAS-BASTOS⁺⁻

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

Liverworts Porellales Neotropic taxonomy Bryophytes

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Abstract

Ceratolejeunea falcatodentata, a new species from Brazil, is described and illustrated. This remarkable new species can be distinguished from other species by its considerably long, hook-shaped apical tooth, free margin of the lobule plane and sharply pointed leaf lobe apex.