Bazzania vittata (Gottsche) Trevis.

Pócs, Tamás, 2023, New records for the liverwort and hornwort flora of Vietnam 2. Bazzania Gray and some other collections of Pierre Tixier in the National Museum of Natural History, France, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (9), pp. 197-210 : 204

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scientific name	Bazzania vittata (Gottsche) Trevis.
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SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Vietnam. Tuyên Duc, piste de Kinda , sur souche au sol, 600 m, Tixier 202 ( PC [ PC0764754 ]); Lâm Đồng, Bao Lôc , sur bois en forêt, 700 m, 6.II.1960, s.n. ( PC [ PC0724732 ]); Bao Lôc, E.N.A.E.S., sur bois au sol en forêt, Tixier 275? ( PC [ PC0764734 ]); Lâm Đồng, Benom da Treu , s.n. ( PC [ PC0764741 ]).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Zhou et al. 2012: 56, fig. 37; Meagher 2019: 357, fig. 33.

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In tropical Asia only this tiny species has a glaucous tint, due to the waxy particles on its opaque cuticle. Shoot 0.4- 1.0 mm wide, with contiguous side leaves. The quadrangular, often emarginate underleaves consist of hyaline cells except for very few green basal cell rows, like in B. tridens , but its leaves have distinct vitta made up of 2-3(4) cell rows near the ventral margin. This character is shared with a few other tropical Asian species ( Schwarz et al. 2023). It usually grows on rotting logs or on bark of trees. Distribution: Malesian-Pacific, from Java through Australia to Tahiti ( Kitagawa 1967).

References

KITAGAWA N. 1967. - Studies on the Hepaticae of Thailand. I. The genus Bazzania, with general introduction. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 30: 249 - 270.

MEAGHER D. A. 2019. - A synopsis of the genus Bazzania (Marchantiophyta: Lepidoziaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 32: 310 - 362. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / SB 18025

SCHWARZ U., SCHAFER-VERWIMP A. & SCHEVOCK J. R. 2023. - Contribution to the flora of the Philippines. 1. Bazzania subtilis and similar species. Frahmia 33: 1 - 84.

ZHOU L. - P., ZHANG L. & XING F. - W. 2012. - Taxonomical review of Bazzania (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta) in China. Journal of Fairylake Botanical Garden 11 (2): 1 - 62.