Lepidozia septemfida Steph., Sp. Hepat. (Stephani)

Cooper, Endymion D., Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2013, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 38. New combinations and synonyms in Lepidoziaceae (Marchantiophyta), Phytotaxa 97 (2), pp. 52-62 : 54

Lepidozia septemfida Steph., Sp. Hepat. (Stephani) 3: 588, 1909 ( Stephani 1909).

Type:— AUSTRALIA. New South Wales: Katumba Falls, Watts 574 (G-69681) .

= Lepidozia multifida Steph., J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 48: 114, 1914 ( Stephani & Watts 1914), syn. nov. Type:— AUSTRALIA. New South Wales: Blue Mountains, Valley Glacier, Sept. 1912, Watts (G-43694 [=G-100]). Note:—Australian Lepidozia with dorsal margins having spines or accessory lobes are frequently incorrectly assigned to Lepidozia ulothrix . The senior author has not seen any specimens from mainland Australia attributable to Lepidozia ulothrix . Rather, the majority of specimens are consistent with Lepidozia septemfida and Lepidozia multifida and a division of this taxon on the basis of the number of accessory lobes is impossible to maintain. Unfortunately, the name Lepidozia septemfida (having seven lobes) has priority over the more accurate and flexible name Lepidozia multifida (having multiple lobes).