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Plant Science Today (PST)

Special Section: Bryophytes

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2015)

Plagiochila sisparensis Steph. - a vulnerable liverwort from Nilgiri Hills, Western Ghats

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2015.2.4.147
Submitted
11 September 2015
Published
01-10-2015

Abstract

Plagiochila sisparensis Steph., an endemic liverwort of Western Ghats - Sri Lanka hot spot, is recently rediscovered from Avalanche in Nilgiri hills (Tamil Nadu), the area is adjacent to its home place. The species was only recorded from India in 1921 from Sispara (Kerala). After more than 90 years gap it has been rediscovered. The species is easily separable from other species of Plagiochila sect. Tayloriae, and characterized by moderately imbricate leaves which are oblong in shape, spinose teeth, mostly restricted to ventral margin of the leaves. Detailed information is given on its morphology and ecology, and a comparison of similar species of the same section is also discussed.

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