Plagiochila heterostipa Steph.

Gradstein, S. Robbert & Reeb, Catherine, 2022, The genus Plagiochila (Dumort.) Dumort. (Marchantiophyta) in Madagascar, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5), pp. 65-106 : 104

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2022v43a5
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scientific name	Plagiochila heterostipa Steph.
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Plagiochila heterostipa Steph. View in CoL

Plagiochila heterostipa Steph. View in CoL , Hedwigia 31: 129 (1892). — Type: South AFrica. Towriver, Rehmann 195 « original » (lecto-, designated as « type » by Jones [1962], G00045491!); Blanco, Rehmann 209 (paralecto-, G00113045).

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Plagiochila heterostipa View in CoL (sect. Vagae), a species described from South Africa and widely reported from the African continent ( Jones 1962; Fischer 2013), was reported from Madagascar by Jones (1962) based on a specimen in New York (leg. Parker, as P. javanica View in CoL ). Surprisingly, this record was not cited in Vanden Berghen (1981) and Grolle (1995). Plagiochila heterostipa View in CoL is morphologically very similar to P. terebrans View in CoL and only seems to differ in having less elongate leaves. In his annotation of the lectotype of P.heterostipa, E. W. Jones View in CoL wrote (d.d. January 1958) “I suspect a depauperate form of P.terebrans View in CoL to which it is certainly very close”. The taxonomic status of P. heterostipa View in CoL and the record from Madagascar need further study.