Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 55. New taxa and synonyms in Adelanthaceae (Marchantiophyta)
Author
Váňa, Jiří
Department of Botany, Charles University, Benátská 2, 128 01 Praha 2, Czech Republic; vana @ natur. cuni. cz
Author
Feldberg, Kathrin
Systematic Botany and Mycology, Faculty of Biology, University of Munich (LMU), Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 Munich, Germany; k. feldberg @ biologie. uni-muenchen. de, jheinrichs @ lmu. de
Author
Söderström, Jochen Heinrichs Lars
Author
Hagborg, Anders
Science and education, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 - 2496, USA; hagborg @ pobox. com, mvonkonrat @ fieldmuseum. org
Author
Konrat, Matt Von
Science and education, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 - 2496, USA; hagborg @ pobox. com, mvonkonrat @ fieldmuseum. org
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Phytotaxa
2014
2014-06-20
173
1
80
86
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.173.1.7
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.173.1.7
1179-3163
5149770
Syzygiella contigua
The original material (
Nova Granada
,
Lindig
) of
Jungermannia contigua
Gottsche (1864: 118)
,
nom. illeg
., non
Jungermannia contigua
Nees (1833: 360)
, was housed in
B
and destroyed during World War II. We were not able to locate any duplicate of this collection.
Stephani (1902a)
replaced the name
Jungermannia contigua
Gottsche
with
Syzygiella contigua
Stephani (1902a: 470)
and cited the above Lindig specimen from
Nova Granada
as well as material from
Brazil
collected by Ule. Only the latter collection is available from several herbaria; Munich material of this collection from the Stephani herbarium was already cited by the monographer of the genus,
Inoue (1966: 210)
. We designate this specimen as
neotype
of
Syzygiella contigua
. The
neotype
agrees perfectly with the description and type material of
Syzygiella integerrima
Stephani (1917: 117)
and the latter is therefore placed in the synonymy of
Syzygiella contigua
.
The type collection of
Syzygiella virescens
Stephani (1902a: 469)
from
Brazil
(leg. Puiggari) was not found in any herbarium (incl.
BM
,
G
,
W
) and is probably lost or destroyed. Thus, a
neotype
is here designated from additional Brazilian collections in the Stephani herbarium (
G
), which Stephani also assigned to
S. virescens
. Both Brazilian specimens in
G
agree well with the original description.
Inoue (1966: 210)
already indicated that
Syzygiella virescens
“seems to be very similar to
Syzygiella integerrima
”. We agree with this statement and place
Syzygiella virescens
in the synonymy of
Syzygiella contigua
(=
Syzygiella integerrima
, see above).