Schistochila vitreocincta (Herzog) X.L.He & Glenny.

Thouvenot, Louis, 2021, Schistochila gradsteinii sp. nov., a new species from New Caledonia related to S. vitreocincta (Schistochilaceae, Marchantiophyta), with a key to the local species and a description of the gynoecium of S. integerrima, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (2), pp. 11-18 : 12

Schistochila vitreocincta (Herzog) X.L.He & Glenny.

Australian Systematic Botany 23: 237 (2010).

COMMENTS

Several expeditions in New Caledonia since 2008 increased our knowledge of the repartition of S. vitreocincta that Schuster (1964) described as limited to a few localities, in the vicinity of Montagne des Sources. In fact, the claim of this author that “the genus ( Perssoniella ) is seemingly restricted to the Araucaria-Agathis zone in the montane portions of southwestern New Caledonia ” is partly true but S. vitreocincta is more frequent that then presumed. In this area, which corresponds to the southern ultramafic massif, this species grows on the barks of many large trunks of Araucariaceae species and was observed in elevations from 200 m to 1400 m.