Published February 8, 2017
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Afroriccardia Reeb & Gradst.
Description
Genus Afroriccardia Reeb & Gradst. gen. nov.
Type species
Afroriccardia comosa (Steph.) Reeb & Gradst. (± Aneura comosa Steph.).
Diagnosis
Thallus (bi)pinnate. Main axis of thallus 2.5–4.0 mm wide. Rhizoids present over the whole width of the ventral thallus surface. Female branches to 1 mm long, archegonia in pairs, covered by a dense cluster of rhizoids with strongly thick-walled tips originating from beneath the apex of the female branch. Paraphyses lacking.
Remarks
Monospecific, contains only A. comosa from Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands and Uganda.
Notes
Published as part of Lucile Rabeau, S. Robbert Gradstein, Jean-Yves Dubuisson, Martin Nebel, Dietmar Quandt & Catherine Reeb, 2017, New insights into the phylogeny and relationships within the worldwide genus Riccardia (Aneuraceae, Marchantiophytina), pp. 1-26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 273 on page 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.273, http://zenodo.org/record/851876
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Reeb & Gradst.
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Streptophyta
- Order
- Metzgeriales
- Family
- Aneuraceae
- Genus
- Afroriccardia
- Taxon rank
- genus