Neodiversity, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 7-11
DOI: 10.13102/neod.101.2, Publication Date: 2017-09-25
The new species Microlejeunea jiboiensis C.J.Bastos & S.Vilas Bôas-Bastos (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta) from the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil, is described and illustrated. The most striking diagnostic characters of the new species are the lobule with free margin folded inward and large, deeply bifid underleaves, with acute, diverging lobes.