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Issue: Vol. 766 No. 3: 14 Jul. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.766.3.1
Page range: 201-229
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New liverwort records and new species of the leafy liverwort family Lejeuneaceae (Marchantiophyta) from Cuba

Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Herbarium Haussknecht (JE), Fürstengraben 1, 07743 Jena, Thüringen, Germany
51 rue Sainte-Barbe; 54500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy; France
Mittlere Letten 11; 88634 Herdwangen-Schönach; Germany
Universidade Federal da Bahia; Instituto de Biologia; Laboratório de Taxonomia de Briófitas-BrioFLORA; Rua Barão de Jeremoabo; s/n; Campus Universitário de Ondina; 40170-280 Salvador; Bahia; Brazil
Bryophytes; liverwort; Caribbean Islands; taxonomy; tropical America; novel taxa Bryophytes Caribbean Islands taxonomy tropical America novel taxa

Abstract

Seventeen new records of liverworts based on the examination of unidentified specimens collected during the second half of the twentieth century in eastern Cuba and deposited in the JE, EGR and HAC herbaria, as well as the uncovering of three new species, namely Diplasiolejeunea guantanamensis sp. nov., Lejeunea aphanopapillata sp. nov., and Rectolejeunea bissei sp. nov. are reported and described. A further interesting Diplasiolejeunea specimen, which had been studied, but unfortunately is now lost, is treated under section “Informal description of a potential new taxon”. Information regarding general distribution of species and their habitats is also provided. This study highlights the importance of herbarium collections as a documentation of biodiversity both from a specific geographic area and an epoch. Unfortunately, as most of the collected specimens are rather scanty, it also highlights the need for vascular plant botanists to include bryologists or cryptogamists in their fieldwork in order to make more comprehensive and better quality collections of bryophytes or cryptogams.

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Ovelar, B.D.C., Paluos, A., Schäfer-Verwimp, A. & Bastos, C.J.P. (2026) New liverwort records and new species of the leafy liverwort family Lejeuneaceae (Marchantiophyta) from Cuba. Phytotaxa 766 (3): 201–229. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.766.3.1