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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Conoscyphus belongs to Acrobolbaceae (Jungermanniineae) not Lophocoleaceae (Lophocoleineae)

Richard J. Dimon A B , Jiri Váňa C , Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp D , Jochen Heinrichs E and Matt A. M. Renner A F
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A National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, NSW 2000, Australia.

B School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

C Department of Botany, Charles University, Benátska 2, CZ-12801 Praha 2, Czech Republic.

D Mittlere Letten 11, D-88634 Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany.

E Ludwig Maximilian University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Biology and Geobio-Center, Menzinger Straße 67, D-80638 Munich, Germany.

F Corresponding author. Email: matt.renner@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Australian Systematic Botany 31(3) 209-218 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB17041
Submitted: 1 August 2017  Accepted: 5 February 2018   Published: 14 May 2018

Abstract

Molecular evidence supports the transfer of Conoscyphus Mitt. from Lophocoleaceae to Acrobolbaceae, which is unexpected on the basis of morphological evidence and further disrupts the morphological circumscription of Acrobolbaceae. Conoscyphus differs from other Acrobolbaceae in possessing a stem perigynium and a conspicuous perianth that forms a tube, large underleaves that produce rhizoids in a fascicle from the underleaf disc, and shoots that grow inverted when hanging free from the substrate. However, Conoscyphus shares with other Acrobolbaceae granular brown oil bodies, a multistratose capsule, absence of terminal branching and papillose leaf cell-surface ornamentation. To reflect the morphological differences, particularly in post-fertilisation reproductive structures, between Conoscyphus and other members of the family, we retain subfamily Conoscyphoideae and transfer it to Acrobolbaceae.


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