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Issue: Vol. 45 No. 1: 30 December 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-12-30
DOI: 10.11646/bde.45.1.6
Page range: 85–94
Abstract views: 261
PDF downloaded: 2

Riccia epecenia: a new species of Riccia section Piliferae Volk from Australia

Australian National Herbarium. Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601
Australia Lesotho liverworts multi-layered epidermal cells New South Wales Riccia trachyglossum South Africa

Abstract

A new species of Riccia is here described for the first time for Australia for section Piliferae, an infrageneric taxon which has its centre of diversity in southern Africa.

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