Leafy liverworts of Chapada das Mesas National Park: a floristic survey and checklist of the leafy liverworts of Maranhão state, Brazil
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Silva, Jainara Pereira
Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Chapadinha, MA, Brazil
Author
Oliveira-da-Silva, Fúvio Rubens
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Botânica Tropical, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil • FROS: oliveira. fuvio @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4871 - 6740 &): 479 - 495. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 17.2.479
Author
Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil • ALIB: ilkiu-borges @ museu-goeldi. br https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1266 - 7211
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Fernandes, Rozijane Santos
Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Chapadinha, MA, Brazil
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2021
2021-03-11
17
1
479
495
journal article
10.15560/17.1.479
1809-127X
5380155
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Lejeunea controversa
Gottsche
Material examined.
BRAZIL
•
Maranhão
, município
de Carolina
,
Parque Nacional Chapada das Mesas
,
Pedra Caída–Cachoeira Pedra Furada
, rupícola;
07°03′S
,
047°28′W
; alt.
200 m
;
7 Feb. 2020
;
JAS
Silva
578;
CCAA 2352
.
Maranhão
, município
de Carolina
,
Parque Nacional Chapada das Mesas
, Pedra Caída–Cachoeira Santuário, rupícola;
07°02′S
,
047°26′W
; alt.
128 m
;
7 Feb. 2020
;
JAS
Silva 554;
CCAA 2358
.
Identification.
Plants dull green. Ventral merophyte of 2 cells wide. Leaves imbricate, ovate-oblong, apex rounded or acute to acuminate, margin entire to slightly crenate; median cells hexagonal, trigones large, cuticle strongly papillose. Lobules ovate, 1/5 lobe length, apical tooth short, straight to falcate. Underleaves distant to contiguous, bifid, ovate, 2‒3 × stem width, base cordate, apex narrowly triangular to acuminate ending of 2‒5 cells in a row, margin entire, plane. Perianth obovate, 5-keeled, keels with teeth, cilia and lacinia.
Lejeunea controversa
is mainly characterized by having the underleaves (2‒3 × stem width) with the apex narrowly triangular to acuminate (ending of 2‒5 cells in a row), a strongly papillose cuticle, and a 5-keeled perianth with teeth, cilia, and lacinia.
Description and illustration.
Gradstein and Ilkiu- Borges (2009: 97, fig. 60a–c).