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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-11-27
Page range: 174–176
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Radula multiflora var. reflexilobula is a synonym of R. decurrens (Radulaceae, Marchantiophyta)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
Radula multiflora R. decurrens Radulaceae Marchantiophyta

Abstract

Radula Dumortier (1822: 112) is one of the largest genera of the liverworts with about 200 currently accepted species (Frey & Stech 2009), but some of them are poorly known and their status is still unclear. Radula javanica Gottsche (in Gottsche et al. 1844: 257) is one of the oldest names of Radula which is widespread in the tropical and subtropical Asia, the Pacific Islands and Australasia (Yamada 1979, Renner 2014). So (2006) reduced a highly variable species R. multiflora Gottsche ex Schiffn. (in Engler 1889: 20) to R. javanica Gottsche. However, Renner (2014) suggested that R. multiflora might be different from R. javanica but similar to R. reflexa Nees & Mont. (in Montagne 1843: 255).