Abstract
In New Caledonia, three species of the genus Parisia are known: P. neo-caledonica, P. ciliata and P. laevipila, the latter two species were formerly in the genus Eucamptodon. In 1875, Bescherelle described Eucamptodon cil- iatus, characterized by a rough, tubular hair at the apex of the leaf. Montagne described the genus Eu- camptodon with multicellular spores, meanwhile Bescherelle wrote spores sph6riques (and unicel- lular). Brotherus (1906) defined a new monotypic genus Parisia in which the leaf has the configuration of an E. ciliatus leaf with unicellular and spherical spores. Some years after, Cardot and Th6riot (1908) added a new species near E. ciliatus, E. laevipilus (with a Latin diagnosis of two lines). In the second edition of Pflanzenfamilien, Brotherus put E. cil- iatus and E. laevipilus in a subgenus of the genus Eucamptodon: Blepharacis. All the material known to the author (PC, z, and Rennes herbarium including the recent collections of Huerlimann and MacKee) was seen and all three species viz: Parisia neocaledonica, Eucamptodon ciliatus and E. laevipilus have spherical spores.
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