Fertile plants of Lejeunea capensis(Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) in the Chaco Serrano forest from Tucumán

GUILLERMO M. SUÁREZ; M. ELENA REINER-DREHWALD; FLORES, JORGE R

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Fundación Miguel Lillo

Lugar: Tucumán; Año: 2022 vol. 59 p. 221 - 226

Fertile plants of Lejeunea capensis were found in Tucumán, Argentina. The popula-tion discovered in the Chaco Serrano represents a new location with respect to the nearest occurrences in Northwest of Argentina and constitutes the first record of sporophyte- bearing plants. Here we provide an amended description and an illus-tration including the first time data of the sporophyte of L. capensis