New records for the liverwort and hornwort flora of Vietnam 2. Bazzania Gray and some other collections of Pierre Tixier in the National Museum of Natural History, France
Author
Pócs, Tamás
Institute of Biology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Pf. 43, H- 3301 (Hungary)
pocs.tamas33@gmail.com
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Cryptogamie, Bryologie
2023
2023-09-20
20
9
197
210
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/bryologie2023v44a9.pdf
journal article
10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2023v44a9
1776-0992
8367451
Bazzania vittata
(Gottsche) Trevis.
SPECIMENS
EXAMINED
. —
Vietnam
.
Tuyên Duc
, piste de
Kinda
, sur souche au sol,
600 m
,
Tixier
202
(
PC
[
PC0764754
]);
Lâm Đồng
,
Bao Lôc
, sur bois en forêt,
700 m
,
6.II.1960
,
s.n.
(
PC
[
PC0724732
]);
Bao Lôc
, E.N.A.E.S., sur bois au sol en forêt,
Tixier
275
? (
PC
[
PC0764734
]);
Lâm Đồng
,
Benom da Treu
,
s.n.
(
PC
[
PC0764741
]).
ILLUSTRATIONS
. —
Zhou
et al
. 2012: 56
, fig. 37;
Meagher 2019: 357
, fig. 33.
NOTES
In tropical Asia only this tiny species has a glaucous tint, due to the waxy particles on its opaque cuticle. Shoot 0.4- 1.0 mm wide, with contiguous side leaves. The quadrangular, often emarginate underleaves consist of hyaline cells except for very few green basal cell rows, like in
B. tridens
, but its leaves have distinct vitta made up of 2-3(4) cell rows near the ventral margin. This character is shared with a few other tropical Asian species (
Schwarz
et al
. 2023
). It usually grows on rotting logs or on bark of trees. Distribution: Malesian-Pacific, from Java through
Australia
to Tahiti (
Kitagawa 1967
).