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Issue: Vol. 69 No. 1 (2012)
Type: Article
Published: 2012-10-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.69.1.3
Page range: 7–15
Abstract views: 14
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Sphaerolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Porellales) is a synonym of Lejeunea

Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg August University, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg August University, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg August University, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Mittlere Letten 11, 88634 Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany
Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Georg August University, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Jungermanniopsida liverwort Neotropics taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Phylogenetic analyses of a three marker dataset of Lejeuneaceae (chloroplast genome rbcL gene and trnL-F region, and nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS-2 region) show the presence of the monospecific genus Sphaerolejeunea in a robust subclade of Lejeunea. We treat Sphaerolejeunea as a synonym of Lejeunea, and propose a new name for Sphaerolejeunea umbilicata, Lejeunea drehwaldii.