Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 65 No. 1 (2012)
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2012-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.65.1.16
Page range: 59–59
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 12

Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 11. Microlejeunea bischlerae (B.M.Thiers) comb. nov.

William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, The New York, Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458-5126, USA
Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605–2496, USA
Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605–2496, USA
Bryophytes Microlejeunea bischlerae Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 11.

Abstract

In the past the genus Microlejeunea Stephani (1888) has often been regarded as a subgenus of Lejeunea Libert (1820). Lejeunea bischlerae Thiers (1997) was described using this concept. However, recent molecular studies (e.g. Wilson et al. 2004) resolve Microlejeunea as a sister of Lejeunea. If this concept is followed, a new combination is needed.