Bazzania loricata

ILLUSTRATION. — Meagher 2019: 343, fig. 23.

Sumber: 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

DESCRIPTION Plants Large, rigid, fragile; moist shoots 4 - 5 mm wide when flattened, stems 0.50 mm wide; terminal branching common, remote, with long pseudo-dichotomous branches, ventral-intercalary branches flagelliform. Leaves Strongly imbricate with auriculate dorsal bases overlaying the stem, deflexed when moist, strongly incurved when dry so that shoots seem tube-like, leaves spreading at right angle when moist and flattened, 2.20 - 2.60 mm long, 1.70 - 2.10 mm wide, very asymmetrically ovate-cordate, length to width ratio 1.2 - 1.4; cuticle smooth, margins denticulate to serrulate by the protrusion of mammillose marginal cells, dorsal margins auriculate, broadly expanded and arched, ventral ones convex, appendiculate at bases, basal appendage semi-circular, bent down and covering the basal border of the corresponding underleaf; apices rounded, denticulate with or without small additional teeth, 1 - 2 - celled. Cells Homogenous, gradually longer toward bases, median cells oval-oblong, 25 - 30 µm wide, 30 - 50 µm long, with thin walls and large bulging trigones sometimes confluent; marginal cells narrower, oval to lanceolate; basal cells elongate, 25 - 50 µm wide, 40 - 80 µm long, thin-walled, with huge trigones often confluent. Underleaves Erect, somewhat laterally recurved, positioned near the leaf bases and free on both sides, transversally inserted, large, reniform, entire, 0.75 - 0.85 mm long, 1.10 - 1.25 mm wide, about 3 times wider than the stem; apices entire or eroded; bordered by 2 - 3 (- 4) files of hyaline cells, chlorophyllous cells as for the leaves (Description after the Malayan specimen [PC 0793176] det. Grolle).

Sumber: A revision of the genus Bazzania Gray (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta) in New Caledonia with a review of the type specimens

DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Hitherto known from a single collection in North Province. Another New Caledonian specimen, labelled Mastigobryum loricatum, from the Vieillard’s Herbarium [PC 0793177] is Bazzania bernieri. TOTAL RANGE. — New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Java, Thailand, Malaysia, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo (?), Philippines (Meagher 2015), New Caledonia.

Sumber: A revision of the genus Bazzania Gray (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta) in New Caledonia with a review of the type specimens