Lejeuneaceae

Schäfer-Verwimp, Alfons, Feldberg, Kathrin, Dong, Shanshan, Melick, Huub Van, Peralta, Denilson F., Schmidt, Alexander R., Schneider, Harald & Heinrichs, Jochen, 2014, Towards a monophyletic classification of Lejeuneaceae III: the systematic position of Leiolejeunea, Phytotaxa 170 (3), pp. 187-198 : 194

Lejeuneaceae subtribe Leiolejeuneinae Schäf. -Verw. & Heinrichs, subtr. nov.

Type: Leiolejeunea A. Evans

Plants dioicous or autoicous, small; stem without hyalodermis, with 2 cells wide ventral merophyte; leaf insertion long, J-shaped; lobules strongly inflated, with a reduced first tooth and a hyaline papilla positioned distal to the prominent second lobule tooth; lobes entire, smooth, lobe cell walls with well-developed trigones, intermediate thickenings present, each lobe cell with 2–4(–6) rather small, subhomogeneous or indistinctly papillose to very finely segmented, subglobose (3–5 x 3–5 µm) to ellipsoidal (3–4 x 6–8 µm), colorless oil bodies; ocelli absent. Underleaves shallowly emarginate, with diverging, blunt lobes. Androecia in autoicous plants on short branches or terminal on longer branches in dioicous plants. Gynoecia without true subfloral innovations; bracts considerably larger than leaves; perianths terete, smooth, beak short, with neck of fertilized archegonium usually projecting through it.

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