Tetracymbaliella comptonii (Pearson) Grolle
- Dataset
- A taxonomic revision of the Lophocoleaceae Vanden Berghen (Marchantiophyta) of New Caledonia
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Marchantiophyta
- class
- Jungermanniopsida
- order
- Jungermanniales
- family
- Brevianthaceae
- genus
- Tetracymbaliella
- species
- Tetracymbaliella comptonii
description
DESCRIPTION AND ILLUSTRATION Grolle (1961) as Tetracymbaliella ratiana.
discussion
COMMENTS This species is very distinctive by the conspicuous pouches on leaf and underleaf margins. This character is shared with Tetracymbaliella cymbalifera (New Zealand) that might introduce some misidentification (see below). T. ratiana is distinguished from the latter by: 1) larger trigones almost as wide as the cell lumina; 2) pouches longer than wide; 3) dorsal leaf margins not connivent; and 4) leaf cells strongly mammillose.
distribution
DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Scattered in South Province where it grows on dead wood in rain forest at medium elevations (collected from 500 to 1000 m). TOTAL RANGE. — Endemic.
materials_examined
Type: New Caledonia. Pearson 740, not seen.
materials_examined
Type: New Caledonia. Pic des Sources, Le Rat s. n. (holo-, M [fide Grolle 1961]; iso-, REN [“ Chiloscyphus grossitextus, Nov. Caledon. Pic des Sources ”, VII. 1909, Le Rat s. n., herb. E. G. Paris]!). FURTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. South Province, Yaté, Wé Toa, on dead wood in wet forest in ultramafic massif, 500 m, 8. IX. 2019, Thouvenot NC 2857; Mt. Mou, VII. 1909, Le Rat s. n. as “ Chiloscyphus cymbaliferus ” (REN); Mt. Dzumac, “ ad arbores in silvat., 1000 m alt ”, VII. 1905, Le Rat s. n. (REN).
synonymic_list
Tetracymbaliella ratiana Grolle, Nova Hedwigia 3: 51 - 52 (Grolle 1961). — Chiloscyphus grossitextus Steph. ex Paris, nom. inval.
Name
- Synonyms
- Chiloscyphus comptonii Pearson
- Homonyms
- Tetracymbaliella comptonii (Pearson) Grolle