An evaluation of the endemic bryophyte flora of Guadeloupe
Author
Gradstein, S. Robbert
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle - Sorbonne Universités, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205), BP 39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris (France) robbert. gradstein @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author)
gradstein@mnhn.fr
Author
Bernard, Elisabeth Lavocat
Moreau, 97128 Goyave, Guadeloupe, F. W. I. Corresponding member of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, 75005 Paris (France) lisalavocat @ hotmail. com
lisalavocat@hotmail.com
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Cryptogamie, Bryologie
2020
2020-10-14
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15
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2
journal article
54419
10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2020v41a15
1fb0f006-c190-4db0-a688-d120373704e5
1776-0992
7822144
Radula pallens
(Sw.) Mont.
Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale Botanique
71 (1839).
Radula subsimplex
Steph.
,
Hedwigia
23: 130 (1884);
Castle (1959: 21
, fig. 22); Yamada (1980: 254, fig. 9). —
Type
:
Guadeloupe
, without collector (holo-, G[G00043857]!, c. andr.). Further collection:
Guadeloupe
, “leg. Germain, misit Dr. l’Herminier” (G[G00112875!]),
syn. nov
.
Remarks
Radula pallens
is a widespread neotropical species, that has been misunderstood in the past and was considered endemic to
Jamaica
(Gradstein in press).
Radula subsimplex
is a phenotype of
R. pallens
with lobule margins not sinuate. Several Caribbean species of
Radula
described by
Castle (1959)
in the section “
Dichotomae
”, such as
R. obovata
Castle
and
R. varilobula
Castle
, are probably further synonyms of
R. pallens
.