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Issue: Vol. 408 No. 3: 1 July 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.408.3.7
Page range: 222–226
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Morphological variation and the relationship with host leaves in the epiphyllous liverwort Cololejeunea chenii Tixier (Marchantiophyta: Lejeuneaceae)

Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
School of Life Science, Guizhou Normal University, 116 Bao Shan North Road, Guiyang 550001, China
School of Life Science, Guizhou Normal University, 116 Bao Shan North Road, Guiyang 550001, China
Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Bryology Laboratory, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
liverwort Lejeuneaceae Cololejeunea Bryophytes

Abstract

Cololejeunea (Spruce 1884: 291) Stephani (1891: 208), with over 400 published binominals, is the largest genus of Lejeuneaceae Cavers (1910: 291) and the most species of the genus are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions (Zhu & So 2001, Yu et al. 2013). These usually small sized liverworts grow preferably in extreme habitats, such as on the surface of living leaves, on twigs, or in running water (Gradstein et al. 2003). The currently accepted generic concept of the genus is based on its incubous foliation, leaves consisting of a dorsal lobe and a ventral lobule, Lejeunea-type branching, lack of underleaves, and transverse section of stem comprising of 5(–8) cortical cells and 1 medullary cell (Yu et al. 2013, and references therein).