Notes on Some Species of Colura (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida), with Description of Colura Cataractarum from Madagascar

Abstract

Examination of about one hundred unidentified Colura specimens resulted in new distributional data of eleven uncommon species, C. australiensis, C. bicornis, C. calyptrifolia, C. crispiloba, C. cristata, C. heimii, C. humbertii, C. imperfecta, C. obesa, C. rhynchophora, C. saroltae and a new species of sect. Colura from Madagascar, C. cataractarum.

Notes on the Bryophytes of Madagascar 2. New liverwort and hornwort records

“…In Madagascar it is known only from its type locality (Jovet-Ast 1954). Since became known from Mauritius and Réunion (Grolle 1995) and from Tanzania (Pócs 2020b).…”

“…The author with colleagues from the Eger College and other institutions and with his late wife visited Madagascar during 1990Madagascar during , 1994Madagascar during , 1998Madagascar during and in 2004. The results of these collecting trips are only partly published (Allen and Magill 2007, Dong et al 2012, 2013, Dorr 1997, He and Grolle 2001, Heinrichs et al 2005, 2014, Hodgetts 2008, Jones 1992, Kis and Pócs 2006, Lee and Pócs 2018, Lindner et al 2004, Orbán 1995, 2000, 2004, 2006a, 2006b, 2006c, 2010a, 2010b, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, 2020a, 2020b, 2021, 2016, 2018, Pócs and Geissler 2002, Pócs and Sass-Gyarmati 2006, Pócs and Schäfer-Verwimp 2006, Pócs and Váňa 2002, Sass-Gyarmati 2001, 2017, Sass-Gyarmati and Pócs 2002, Szabó and Pócs 2016, Wilding 2016, which were summarized until 2011 in Marline et al (2012)…”

“…Acknowledgement -The author wishes to express his gratitudes to all instututions and sponsoring agencies mentioned in his last Madagascar contribution (Pócs 2020b), who supported his travel costs and collecting activities. He is also grateful to his late wife and to his Hungarian and Malagasy colleagues, who participated in the collecting expeditions and finally to the careful reviewers, Catherine Reeb (Sorbonne Université and PC) and to Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp (Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany) for their useful advises and corrections.…”

Checklist and distribution of the liverworts of the Andasibe (Périnet) region (Madagascar)

“…The checklist of the liverworts of this area proposed here, is based on the records of this field trip and of herbarium-housed specimens collected during earlier explorations and recent data from the literature (Reeb et al 2018;Reeb and Gradstein 2020;Pócs 2011Pócs , 2015Pócs , 2020a2021;Sass-Gyarmati and Reeb 2021;Sass-Gyarmati et al 2022).…”