Bazzania praerupta (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.

Pócs, Tamás, 2023, 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, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (9), pp. 197-210 : 200-201

Bazzania praerupta (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.

( Figs 3E, F ; 6A, B )

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Vietnam. Tuyên Duc (now Lâm Đồng), Mts Lang Bian , sur écorce d’Éricacées, 1900 m, Tixier 277 and 409 ( PC [ PC0764756 , PC0764745 ]); Centre Vietnam, Nha Trang, corticole à 1000 m, 19.V.1922, Poilane 3436 ( PC [ PC0764744 ]) .

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Hattori & Mizutani 1958: 98, figs 1-20 (under B. yakushimensis Horik. ); Pócs 1969: 84-85, figs III-IV: 14-16; Sharma & Srivastava 1993: 49-50; Zhou et al. 2012: 40, fig. 25; Khotimperwati et al. 2018: 883, fig. 8.

NOTES

Shoot 2-3 mm wide, in dry state more or less convolute.Leaves densely imbricate, broad triangular ovate, with tridentate to irregularly dentate apex. Underleaves orbicular or emarginate with auriculate base, without hyaline margin. Widespread Palaeotropical or Pantropical species ( Gradstein 2017).

Figures

FIG. 3. — Bazzania loricata (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.: A, leaf; B, underleaf. Bazzania pectinata (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Trevis.: C, leaf; D, underleaf. Bazzania praerupta (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Trevis.: E, dry shoot, side view; F, wet shoot, ventral view. Scale bars: A, C, 500 µm; B, D, 250 µm; E, F, 1 mm.

FIG. 6. — Species convolute in dry state.Bazzania praerupta (Reinw.et al.) Trevis.:A, habit,dorsal view;B, ventral view.Bazzania recurva (Mont.) Trevis.:C, D, habit, lateral view. Bazzania revoluta (Steph.) N.Kitag.: E, habit, dorsal view; F, habit, lateral view. Scale bars: A, B, 5 mm; C-F, 1 mm.