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Metzgeria pubescens Raddi 1818

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Chonburi 20131, Thailand.
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.

Description

Metzgeria pubescens (Schrank) Raddi (1818: 35).

Basionym:— Jungermannia pubescens Schrank (1792: 231).

Type: AUSTRIA.“An feuchten, schattingen Kalkfelsen der Gebirge um Salzburg.” Sauter [Rabenh., Hep. Europ. (Exs.) no. 84] (neotype: W designated by Grolle & So (2002)).

Metzgeria pubescens, like M. kinabaluensis, is distinguishing by pointed straight hairs densely covering both surfaces of thallus and margin. The species is widely Holarctic (Masuzaki et al. 2010). In Thailand, M. pubescens was reported as Apometzgeria pubescens by Kitakawa (1969). Although the specimen referable to M. pubescens in Thailand is not available for this study, the phytogeographical distribution suggests that it belongs to M. kinabaluensis. Metzgeria pubescens, therefore, is excluded from the country.

Notes

Published as part of Sukkharak, Phiangphak & Chantanaorrapint, Sahut, 2020, The liverwort genus Metzgeria (Metzgeriaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Thailand, pp. 251-262 in Phytotaxa 441 (3) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.441.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13872573

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Raddi
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Order
Metzgeriales
Family
Metzgeriaceae
Genus
Metzgeria
Species
pubescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Metzgeria pubescens Raddi, 1818 sec. Sukkharak & Chantanaorrapint, 2020

References

  • Raddi, G. (1818) Jungermanniografia etrusca. Modena, 45 pp.
  • Schrank, F. P. (1792) Primitiae florae salisburgensis dissertatione praevia de discrimine plantarum ab animalibus. Varrentrapp et Wenner, Frankfurt a. M., 240 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 124959
  • Grolle, R. & So, M. L. (2002) Typifications of three old names of Metzgeria species (Hepaticae): Jungermannia furcata L. 1753, J. linearis Sw. 1788 and J. pubescens Schrank 1792. Cryptogamie Bryologie 23 (2): 119 - 121.
  • Masuzaki, H., Tsubota. H., Shimamura, M., Yamaguchi, T. & Deguchi, H. (2010) A taxonomic revision of the genus Apometzgeria (Metzgeriales, Marchantiophyta). Hikobia 15: 427 - 452.