Aneura latissima Spruce
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institut de Systématique Évolution Biodiversité, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, CNRS, EPHE, UMR 7205 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
Description
Riccardia latissima (Spruce) Schiffn., Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 67: 177 (1898) — Type: Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro, on rotten logs, Spruce s.n. (syn-, MANCH!).
Aneura pseudopinguis (Herzog) Pócs, Acta Botanica Hungarica 29: 133 (1983) (Riccardia pinguis Herzog). — Type: Brazil, St. Catarina, Jaraguá, 3.X.1937, Carl s.n. (holo-, JE n.v.), syn. fide Gradstein (2013).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Madagascar. Alaotra-Mangoro, Vohimana Reserve 18°55’09.9”S, 49°30’49.4”E, 827 m, 15.IV.2010, Reeb, Andriamanantena & Bidault CRAE142, (PC0724341A, TAN); Maromizaha Reserve 18°58’34.4”S, 48°27’54.5”E, 1095 m, 05.VII.2012, Reeb MTM1280 (PC, TAN); Sava, Makirovana, 14°10’29.3”S, 49°57’07.7”E, 695 m, 06.V.2010, Reeb CR282 (PC0763839).
DISTRIBUTION. — Tropical South America and tropical Africa (Gradstein et al. 1983; Meenks & Pócs 1985). Widespread in tropical Africa, recorded from Angola, Bioko, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe (Wigginton 2018). Records of A. latissima from South Africa are referred to A. pinguis (Perold 2001a).
HABITAT. — On rotten wood and bark, rock and muddy banks in humid submontane and montane forests (Meenks & Pócs 1985).
DESCRIPTIONMeenks & Pócs (1985), Wigginton (2004). Mycorrhiza-like fungi may be observed in thallus cross-section, but they do not seem to be constantly present in African Aneura.
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- Journal article: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2020v41a2 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Spruce
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Marchantiophyta
- Order
- Metzgeriales
- Family
- Aneuraceae
- Genus
- Aneura
- Species
- latissima
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- GRADSTEIN S. R. 2013. - Afro-American hepatics revisited. Polish Botanical Journal 58: 149 - 177. https: // doi. org / 10.2478 / pbj- 2013 - 0016
- GRADSTEIN S. R., POCS T. & VANA J. 1983. - Disjunct Hepaticae in Tropical America and Africa. Acta Botanica Hungarica 29: 127 - 171.
- MEENKS J. & POCS T. 1985. - East African Bryophytes IX. Aneuraceae. Abstracta Botanica 9: 79 - 98.
- PEROLD S. M. 2001 a. - Studies on the liverwort family Aneuraceae (Metzgeriales) from southern Africa. 1. The genus Aneura and its local representative. Bothalia 31: 167 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.4102 / abc. v 31 i 2.515