Lejeunea deplanata Nees

Qiu, Qiong, Y. - M, Cheng, Xia-Fang & Zhu, Rui-Liang, 2014, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 57. Cheilolejeunea boliviensis and Cheilolejeunea savesiana, two new synonyms in Lejeunea (Marchantiophyta, Lejeuneaceae), Phytotaxa 173 (1), pp. 88-90 : 88

Lejeunea deplanata Nees , in Gottsche, Lindenberg & Nees, Syn. Hepat. 3: 368, 1845 ( Gottsche et al. 1845). Type:

— Type. Peru. “In cortice peruviano (Hb. N.)” (holotype STR; isotypes STR, G!) .

= Cheilolejeunea boliviensis Steph., Biblioth. Bot. 87: 266, 1916 ( Stephani 1916). Type:— Bolivia. Santa Cruz, Prov. Caballero, Nebelwald über Comarapa , 2600 m, 1911, Herzog 3804 (holotype G; isotype JE!), syn. nov.

According to Reiner-Drehwald (2010) Lejeunea deplanata consists two varieties: L. deplanata var. deplanata and L. deplanata var. cuspidata ( Stephani 1914: 605) Reiner-Drehwald (2010: 529) . The type specmens of Cheilolejeunea boliviensis belong to L. deplanata var. deplanata owing to the lack of a filiform tooth of the leaf lobule ( Fig. 1 ). Lejeunea deplanata is widespread in tropical America and is known from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador (including the Galapagos Archipelago), Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela (Reiner- Drehwald 2010).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lejeunea deplanata Nees var. deplanata. A. Portion of plant with gynoecia, ventral view. B. Gynoecium, ventral view. C. Leaf, ventral view. D. Leaf lobule. E. Underleaf. F. Apical marginal cells of leaf lobe. G. Median cells of leaf lobe. H. Basal cells of leaf lobe. All from Herzog 3804 (isotype, JE).