Abstract
Riccia sarieae, a new species of Riccia, is described from Marunthuvazhmalai, a fragmented hillock of the Southern Western Ghats. The distinctive features of the species are quadrate to rounded-quadrate epidermal cells, ovoid to roughly tetrahedral spores lacking an equatorial wing, crenulate, 9–11 areolae, with ridged areolations.
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<p>Manju, C.N., Chandini, V.K., Singh, S.K. & Rajesh, K.P. (2021) A new species of <em>Riccia </em>(Ricciaceae:Marchantiophyta) from the Western Ghats of Kerala. <em>The Bryologist </em>124 (3): 376–384. https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-124.3.376</p>
<p>Singh, D.K., Singh, S.K. & Singh, D. (2016) <em>Liverworts and Hornworts of India, an annotated checklist</em>. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, India, 439 pp.</p>
<p>Singh, S.K. (2014) An appraisal of genus <em>Riccia</em> in India with a note on diversity and distribution of species. <em>International Journal of Sustainable Water and Environmental Systems</em> 6: 35–43.</p>
<p>Söderström, L., Hagborg, A., Konrat, M. v., Bartholomew-Began, S., Bell, D., Briscoe, L., Brown, L., Cargill, D.C., Costa, D.P., Crandall-Stotler, B.J., Cooper, E.D., Dauphin, G., Engel, J.J., Feldberg, K., Glenny, D., Gradstein, S.R., He, X., Heinrichs, J., Hentschel, J., Ilkiu-Borges, A.L., Katagiri, T., Konstantinova, N.A., Larraín, J., Long, D.G., Nebel, M., Pócs, T., Puche, F., Reiner-Drehwald, E., Renner, M.A.M., Sass-Gyarmati, A., Schäfer-Verwimp, A., Segarra Moragues, J.B., Stotler, R.E., Sukkharak, P., Thiers, B.M., Uribe, J., Váňa, J., Villarreal, J.C., Wigginton, M., Zhang, L. & Zhu, R.-L. (2016) World checklist of hornworts and liverworts. <em>PhytoKeys </em>59: 1–828. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261</p>
<p>Srivastava, K.P. (1964) Bryophytes of India-I. Ricciaceae. <em>Bulletin of the National Botanic Gardens</em> 104: 1–103.</p>