Cololejeunea schmidtii Steph.

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 schmidtii Steph.

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Botanisk Tidsskrift 24 (3): 278 (1902).

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Malaysia. Terengganu: Mt. Tebu Forest Reserve, 15 km S of Jerteh town. Primary lowland dipterocarp forest with small waterfalls and slow stream. Along the forest trail at the Lata Belatan Recreational Forest and waterfall, situated at the base of Mt. Tebu at 308 m alt., on living leaves, 16.IV.2019, G.E. Lee et al. 19015, 19016, 19017.

REMARKS

Cololejeunea schmidtii is unlikely to be confused with other members of Malaysian Cololejeunea by its 2-celled first tooth of leaf lobule, large papillose-tuberculate cuticle (1 per cell, usually almost occupying its whole surface), denticulate margin of the dorsal leaf base and the 4-keeled, papillose perianth. A widespread, epiphyllous Indopacific species known from Sri Lanka, Indochina, China, Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Fiji ( Zhu & So 2001; Pócs et al. 2011). New to Peninsular Malaysia (Terengganu). In Malaysia, the species was only known from Sabah (Kinabalu area) ( Mizutani 1966).

Figures

FIG. 8. — Cololejeunea schmidtii Steph.:A, part of plant in ventral view;B, C, leaves;D, perianth,female bracts;E, median leaf lobe cells;F, marginal leaf lobe cells; G, stem portion,leaf lobule and stylus (hyaline papilla shown in gray),H, gemma. From G.E. Lee et al. 19015.Scale bars: A,D, 0.2 mm; B, C, 0.1 mm; E-H, 50 µm.