Cryptolophocolea levieri (Schiffn.) L.Söderstr.

Thouvenot, Louis, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the Lophocoleaceae Vanden Berghen (Marchantiophyta) of New Caledonia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (1), pp. 1-60 : 54

Cryptolophocolea levieri (Schiffn.) L.Söderstr.

Phytotaxa 112: 21 ( Söderström 2013b). — Lophocolea levieri Schiffn., Die Hepaticae der Flora von Buitenzorg 182 ( Schiffner 1900). — Chiloscyphus paroicus J.J.Engel & R.M.Schust. , Nova Hedwigia 39: 420 ( Engel & Schuster 1984 [1985]).

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Type: Indo -nesia. Schiffner 1207-1210 (isosyn-, PC [ PC0102563 ]!).

FURTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Java. Preanger province, Tjiburrum near Tjibodas , in primary cloud forest, 1575 m, 28.IV.1894, Schiffner 1207 as Lophocolea levieri ( PC [ PC0102563 ]). New Caledonia. Mts. Koghis, 21.IV.1914, Compton 801 as Lophocolea levieri ( BM [ BM013409501 , BM013409504 ]); Mt. Mou , on stone and mud in stream, 8.III.1914, Compton 444 as Lophocolea levieri ( BM [ BM013409502 ]).

COMMENTS

This species was reported from New Caledonia by Pearson (1922) as Lophocolea levieri and included as Chiloscyphus paroicus in the checklist ( Thouvenot et al. 2011). The description given by Pearson does not match the original diagnosis of L. levieri ( Schiffner 1900) in the following features: 1) entire leaf margins; and 2) deeply bilobed underleaves, free or narrowly connate on a single side, with a single tooth on each lateral margin. Furthermore, Pearson stated that his specimen was close to Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort. The three checked parts of the Compton collection named by Pearson as L. levieri (BM) turned to be Lophocolea convexula , which fits Pearson’s remarks on the likeness to L. heterophylla . Therefore, Cryptolophocolea levieri (as Chiloscyphus paroicus ) must be removed from the bryophyte flora of New Caledonia.