Diplasiolejeunea cavifolia Steph.

Thouvenot, Louis & Müller, Frank, 2021, Contribution to the bryophyte flora of New Caledonia IV. Species new to the country, new localities together with taxonomic notes, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (13), pp. 181-196 : 184

Diplasiolejeunea cavifolia Steph.

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Province, Touho, Massif des Lèvres, Tipéléi upper valley, 20°50’11”S, 165°8’31”E, epiphyllous in lowland rain forest, 315 m, 12.X.2012, Thouvenot NC2161.

COMMENTS

This pantropical species was only reported twice from South Province by Tixier (1972) and Hürlimann (1999). It has been collected also in North Province, in the sedimentary Massif des Lèvres, where it grows as epiphyte mixed with the dominant Leptolejeunea amphiophtalma Zwickel.