Bazzania loricata (Reinw., Blume & Nees) 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 loricata (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.

( Fig. 3A, B )

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Vietnam. Lâm ĐỒng, Dalao, épiphyte sur bois au sol, 900 m, Tixier 260 ( PC [ PC0764729 , PC0764730 ]).

ILLUSTRATION. — Meagher 2019: 343, fig. 23.

NOTES

Shoots 2-3 mm wide, leaves densely imbricate, broadly ovate, almost entire (Stephani’s Integrifolia group), margins denticulate, at apical part with more projecting cells. Underleaves semicircular, wider than long, with 1-3 rows of hyaline margin. Malesian-Melanesian species, distribution known from Thailand and the Philippines through Indonesia and Australia to New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands. New to Vietnam.

Figures

FIG. 3. — Bazzania loricata (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.: A, leaf; B, underleaf. Bazzania pectinata (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Trevis.: C, leaf; D, underleaf. Bazzania praerupta (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.: E, dry shoot, side view; F, wet shoot, ventral view. Scale bars: A, C, 500 µm; B, D, 250 µm; E, F, 1 mm.