Cololejeunea ensifera Tixier ex L.Söderstr., Pócs, Váňa & A.Hagborg

Sarimi, Muhammad Syafiq, Pócs, Tamás & Lee, Gaik Ee, 2021, Data to the Malaysian liverwort flora, III: New Lejeuneaceae records from Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (19), pp. 249-267 : 254

* Cololejeunea ensifera Tixier ex L.Söderstr., Pócs, Váňa & A.Hagborg

( Figs 6 C-E; 7)

Phytotaxa 220 (2): 199 (2015). — Cololejeunea ensifera Tixier ,

Revue Bryologique et Lichénologique 36 (3/4): 562 (1969) nom. inval.

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Malaysia. Sabah: Crocker Range National Park NNW of Tambunan. Gunung Alab Substation at elevation of 1900-1940 m. Mossy cloud (elfin) forest, about 6 m high canopy of Phyllocladus hypophyllus, Rhododendron, Dacrydium and Nepenthes , 17.VIII.2018. J. Havasi & T. Pócs 1823D, 1823L, 1823O, 1823AC, 1823AH, 1823AL, 1823AN.

REMARKS

A species hitherto known from Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand ( Tixier 1969; Chantanaorrapint & Pócs 2014). New to Malaysia.Typical features are the acute, sword-like first lobule tooth crossing the triangular second tooth, the pluricellular stylus and the biseriate vitta. On leaves of shrubs and ferns.

Figures

FIG. 6. — Cololejeunea equialbi Tixier:A, part of plant in ventral view and gemmae; B, part of leaf lobe and lobule. From J.Havasi & T.Pócs 1811/AX. Cololejeunea ensifera Tixier ex L.SÖderstr., Pócs, Váňa & A.Hagborg: C, part of plant in ventral view; D, E, part of leaf lobe, lobule and vitta. From J. Havasi & T. Pócs 1823AL. Scale bars: 50 µm.