Nova Hedwigia Vol.

95 issue 3–4, 451–482 Article

published online September 7, 2012

Review of the genus Rectolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae,

Marchantiophyta)

M. Elena Reiner-Drehwald1 and Riclef Grolle 2 †

1
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissen-
schaften, Systematische Botanik, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
email: mreiner@uni-goettingen.de
2
Riclef Grolle (†) Institut für Spezielle Botanik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena,
Germany (former address)

With 5 figures

Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. & R. Grolle† 2012: Review of the genus Rectolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae,
Marchantiophyta). – Nova Hedwigia 95: 451–482.
Abstract: Based on the examination of types and additional specimens, the 68 taxa originally
described under Rectolejeunea are here assigned to five genera – Rectolejeunea, Cheilolejeunea,
Cyclolejeunea, Lejeunea and Microlejeunea – or treated as 'doubtful names'. Rectolejeunea is
characterized by: ventral merophyte 2 cells wide; leaf cells small and ± equally thickened, ocelli
scattered in leaf lobe and at the leaf base; lobule inflated, apical tooth 1-celled, often long and
falcate, hyaline papilla proximal; underleaves bifid, with or without ocelli, lateral margins entire,
angulate to dentate; gynoecia with 1 pycnolejeuneoid innovation, perianth compressed, 5-keeled,
dorsal keel short and inconspicuous; asexual reproduction by caducous leaves, in normal shoots or in
flagelliform branches. The results are presented in three parts: 1. An alphabetical list of taxa described
in Rectolejeunea with their accepted names. 2. A discussion of the present concept of the genus
Rectolejeunea s.str. and its subgenera, with a key to the five species here accepted (Rectolejeunea
berteroana, R. emarginuliflora, R. flagelliformis, R.truncatiloba and R. queenslandica), as well as
their types, synonyms, references, geographical distributions, and additional specimens examined.
3. A taxonomic arrangement of the excludenda and doubtful names, with types, synonyms and
references. Two new combinations (Cheilolejeunea riparia and Lejeunea bornmuelleri), fifteen
new synonyms and seven lectotypifications are proposed. Illustrations of Rectolejeunea berteroana,
R. emarginuliflora, R. flagelliformis, Cheilolejeunea assurgens and C. papulosa are provided.
Keywords: Cheilolejeunea, Cyclolejeunea, Lejeunea, Lejeuneaceae, Microlejeunea, Rectolejeunea,
synonyms, taxonomy, worldwide.

Preface

In May 2004, Riclef Grolle sent me a draft of a review of the genus Rectolejeunea,
and asked me to complete the manuscript and send it for publication. The review

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Germany. DOI: 10.1127/0029-5035/2012/0063 0029-5035/2012/0063 $ 8.00
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