Abstract
During the biodiversity research of Fiji Islands Matt A.M Renner has collected a Cololejeunea species related to Cololejeunea filidens Benedix, widespread in the Indomalesian region, but well differs by its short, unicellular second lobular tooth and by its thin cell walls without trigones and intermediate thickenings. It is described as Cololejeunea renneri Pocs. With this the number of Cololejeunea species known from Fiji Islands raised to 43. The new species might be more widespread in the Indomalesian-Pacific region, just confused before with Cololejeunea filidens.
Highlights
A second collecting trip was organized during August of 2011 to explore the diversity of bryoflora of the Fiji Islands by the Field Museum (Chicago), in co-operation with the South Pacific Herbarium (SPRH) of the University of the South Pacific.One of the participants, Matthew A.M
Materials and Methods After careful study of the specimen and comparison with the literature records and available herbarium material it seemed that a taxon distinguished according to Tixier (1985) under the name of Cololejeunea filidens Benedix is very similar to our specimen
Both Cololejeunea filidens and our plant belong to the artificial subgenus Leptocolea (Spruce) Schiffn. (Lasiolejeunea Benedix according to Tixier) characterized by the lack of hyaline margin and larger protrusions on the cells and within it, to the Sect
Summary
A second collecting trip was organized during August of 2011 to explore the diversity of bryoflora of the Fiji Islands by the Field Museum (Chicago), in co-operation with the South Pacific Herbarium (SPRH) of the University of the South Pacific (von Konrat et al 2011).One of the participants, Matthew A.M. Renner from the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW), Australia had collected a tiny liverwort from a fallen branch in the Sovi River Valley of Viti Levu Island Later he sent the specimen to the present author, a participant of the expedition, responsible for the identification of the Lejeuneoideae, especially of the species of Cololejeunea. He indicated, based on literature records and his own investigations the presence of 42 species on the islands (Pócs 2012).
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