Biology:Jensenia spinosa

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Short description: Species of plant


Jensenia spinosa
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J. spinosa
Binomial name
Jensenia spinosa
Synonyms[1][2][3]
  • Pallavicinia spinosa (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Grolle 1979, illegitimate homonym, not (Gottsche) Steph. 1892 nor Steph. ex Yoshin. 1894
  • Symphyogyna spinosa Lindenb. & Gottsche (basionym)

Jensenia spinosa is a dioicous bryophyte plant in the liverwort family Pallaviciniaceae. It is the only African member of the genus Jensenia, and generally occurs at high elevations.[4] It is widespread but scarce, and has been found in South Africa , Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda (Volcanoes National Park at 3,650m), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Saint Helena.[5]

Jensenia spinosa is very similar to its neotropical relative J. erythropus,[5] though geographically isolated. Both may be confused with Symphyogyna species, but the latter's scale-shaped, rather than cup-shaped involucres have been useful in distinguishing the two genera.[4][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Jensenia spinosa (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Grolle". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-35201806. Retrieved January 6, 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1  Under its current treatment of Jensenia spinosa (from its basionym Symphyogyna spinosa), this species was published in Acta Botanica Fennica 133: 65. 1986. "Name - Jensenia spinosa (Lindenb. & Gottsche) Grolle". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/35201806. Retrieved January 6, 2012. 
  3.  Symphyogyna spinosa, the basionym of J. spinosa, was originally described and published in Synopsis Hepaticarum 786. 1847. "Name - Symphyogyna spinosa Lindenb. & Gottsche". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/35203087. Retrieved January 6, 2012. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "The hepatic, Jensenia spinosa (= Pallavicinia stephanii: Pallaviciniaceae), in southern Africa". Bothalia 23,2: 223–229. 1993. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Grolle, Riclef (1979). "Miscellanea hepaticologica 171-180". Journal of Bryology 10: 263–272. 
  6. Van der Gronde, K. (1980). "Studies on Colombian Cryptogams. VIII.". Mededelingen van het Botanisch Museum en Herbarium van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. No. 505 Botany C83 (3): 271–278. 

Wikidata ☰ Q6179990 entry