Symphyogyna Nees & Mont.

Fernandes, Rozijane Santos, Silva, José Augusto dos Santos, Ottoni, Felipe Polivanov & Pinheiro Costa, Denise, 2021, Diversity of thalloid liverworts in Brazilian Savanna of Parque Nacional da Chapada das Mesas, Maranhão, Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 45-58 : 51

Symphyogyna Nees & Mont.

The genus is represented by 11 species in the Neotropics ( Uribe and Aguirre 1995; Gradstein and Costa 2003; Flora do Brasil 2020). Five species are known to occur in Brazil, in the Central-West, Northeast, North, and Southeast regions, in the Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado, and Pantanal biomes ( Flora do Brasil 2020). Of these five species, three occur in the Northeast Region. We report the first records of Symphyogyna leptothelia for the Northeast Region, making it the fourth species of the genus recorded for this region, and the first time that the genus is reported from Maranhão state.