The status of Neopotamolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae) and description of a new species from Ecuador and Southern Brazil

Systematic Botany

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-492

  Gradstein, S Robbert ^a   Reiner Drehwald, M Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andean Brazilian disjunction; Lejeunea subgenus Neopotamolejeunea; Lejeunea topoensis; Liverworts; Rheophytes; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CHEILOLEJEUNEA; LEJEUNEA; LEJEUNEACEAE; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 35848936954     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364407782250571     Document Type: Article

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