Lejeunea cancellata Nees & Mont.

Dauphin, Gregorio, Gradstein, S. Robbert & Allen, Noris Salazar, 2022, Liverworts and hornworts of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (9), pp. 153-165 : 159

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2022v43a9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7822739

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scientific name

Lejeunea cancellata Nees & Mont.
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Lejeunea cancellata Nees & Mont. View in CoL View at ENA

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Panama. Barro Colorado Island, Gradstein & Salazar Allen 15090.

HABITAT. — On tree trunks.

DISTRIBUTION. — Tropical America.

REMARKS

This species is characterized by the rounded to apiculate leaf apex, leaf cells with homogeneous oil bodies, small lobules, underleaves wider than long and c. 4-5× stem width, dioicy, gynoecia two in a row on short branches, and vegetative reproduction by caducous branches ( Gradstein 2021).

GRADSTEIN S. R. 2021. - The liverworts and hornworts of Colombia and Ecuador. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 121: 1 - 723. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 49450 - 6