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3 August 2020 Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine): Frullania pycnoclada and a new species, F. vanae
Yuriy S. Mamontov, John J. Atwood, Evgeny E. Perkovsky, Michael S. Ignatov
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Abstract

A study of Rovno amber revealed two species of liverworts in the genus Frullania (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta) that are new to the Late Eocene flora of Rovno amber. Both species are characterized by the mammillose anterior surface of the ventral lobules. One of these, F. pycnoclada Grolle, was described previously from Eocene Baltic amber, whereas the other species, F. vanae Mamontov, J.J.Atwood, Perkovsky & Ignatov, is described here as new. Frullania vanae differs from F. pycnoclada in the shape of the stem and branch underleaves, the shape of the stem leaf lobules, and in the areolation of the leaf lobe cells.

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Yuriy S. Mamontov, John J. Atwood, Evgeny E. Perkovsky, and Michael S. Ignatov "Hepatics from Rovno amber (Ukraine): Frullania pycnoclada and a new species, F. vanae," The Bryologist 123(3), 421-430, (3 August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745-123.3.421
Received: 24 April 2020; Accepted: 11 June 2020; Published: 3 August 2020
KEYWORDS
Eocene
Europe
Fossil liverworts
Porellales
taxonomy
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