Bazzania indica (Gottsche & Lindenb.) 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 : 200

* Bazzania indica (Gottsche & Lindenb.) Trevis.

( Fig. 2E, F )

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Vietnam. Tuyên Duc (now Lâm Đồng), Manline , sur bois au sol, ravin n°6, 1300 m, Tixier 185 ( PC [ PC0764738 ]); Tuyên Duc, Teurnom , fond de ravin sur bois au sol en forêt, 1300 m, Tixier 417 ( PC [ PC07647747 ]).

NOTES

Identifiable by its densely imbricate, broad ovate leaves with shortly tridentate apex and serrulate margins. The underleaves reflexed, without hyaline border, variable in width. A Malesian species widespread in Indonesia and Thailand but with no occurrence in India ( Kitagawa 1967; Siregar et al. 2018). New to Vietnam.

ILLUSTRATION. — del Rosario 1977: 150, fig. 61.

Figures

FIG. 2. Bazzania friabilis N.Kitag. & Kodama:A, habit, ventral view; B, shoot with caducous leaves;C, leaf apex;D, underleaves (Tixier s.n., PC0764741). Bazzania cf. indica (Gottsche & Lindenb.) Trevis.: E, habit, ventral view; F, underleaf (Tixier 185). Scale bars: A, B, F, 200 µm; C, 50 µm; D, 100 µm; E, 1 mm.