identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
615B7E69DE2CFF91D6A8B9F1D09DF968.text	615B7E69DE2CFF91D6A8B9F1D09DF968.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fissidens ezukanmae Brugg.	<div><p>Fissidens ezukanmae Brugg. -Nann., sp. nov.</p> <p>(Fig. 1)</p> <p>DIAGNOSIS. — Species haec Fissidenti pellucido similis sed cellulis mammillatis neque non foliis omnibus elimbatis vel limbidiis ad foliis superioribus plantarum perichaetialium limitatis facillime dignoscenda. TYPE. — Nigeria, Taraba State, Ngel Ngaki, towards the outskirts of Yelwa village, on the Mambilla Plateau, 7°05’07”N, 11°04’11”E, alt. 1600 m, on termite mound, XI 2015, leg. I. Ezukanma 041 (holo-, L; iso-, KRAM; iso-, LUH).</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. — The new species is named in honour of its collector Dr Izuchukwu Ezukanma of Lagos, Nigeria.</p> <p>DESCRIPTION</p> <p>General description</p> <p>Plants. Growing in mats.</p> <p>Stems. 3-4 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide with leaves (perichaetial stems 3´1 mm with 5 leaf pairs), unbranched or branched, often with proliferations from old perichaetia, pinnately foliated with 7-12 leaf pairs, without central strand.</p> <p>Rhizoids. Brown, smooth.</p> <p>Axillary nodules. Not differentiated; leaves distant, hardly crispate when dry, lanceolate, less often elliptical, acute, 0.5- 0.9 × 0.1-0.2 mm, 3.0-5.5 times as long as wide, margin denticulate occasionally subentire, most leaves elimbate.</p> <p>Limbidium. Restricted to the vaginant laminae of upper and mid leaves of perichaetial stems, extending up to ¾ the length of the vaginant laminae, reaching the insertion in perichaetial leaves? (hard to observe), not reaching the insertion in mid leaves, marginal, unistratose, insertion, up to 11 µm wide, consisting of wide cells.</p> <p>Vaginant laminae. ± ª⁄5 the leaf length, narrower than the stem, unistratose, slightly to almost half open, completely open in some perichaetial leaves.</p> <p>Dorsal lamina. Mostly ending well above the insertion, not decurrent.</p> <p>Dorsal and apical lamina. Unistratose</p> <p>Costa. Percurrent to excurrent, in cross-section bryoides-type.</p> <p>Mid dorsal laminal cells. 6.0-11.0 × 4.0-7.0(-8.5) µm, 1-2 times as long as wide, mammillose.</p> <p>Mid vaginant laminal cells. 6.0-12.5 × 3.5-7 µm, 1.5-3.0 times as long as wide, mammillose.</p> <p>Gemmae. Not observed.</p> <p>Fertile parts</p> <p>Perigonia. Not seen.</p> <p>Archegonia. In terminal perichaetia and also axillary, 200- 250 µm long, solitary and naked in some leaf axils (Fig. 1C), at least some of which developing into mature sporophytes;</p> <p>Perichaetial leaves. 1.5 mm long.</p> <p>Calyptra. 0.6 mm long.</p> <p>Sporophyte. Singly per perichaetium.</p> <p>Setae. 4 mm long, smooth.</p> <p>Capsule. Erect, 0.7 × 0.35 mm, ± 32 files of quadrate to oblong, thick-walled exothecial cells.</p> <p>Peristome. Of scariosus - type, with curved, short teeth, 190 µm long, 40-41 µm wide at base.</p> <p>Operculum. Not seen.</p> <p>Spores. Subglobose 16-19 µm in diameter, coarsely papillose.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/615B7E69DE2CFF91D6A8B9F1D09DF968	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Bruggeman-Nannenga, Maria A.	Bruggeman-Nannenga, Maria A. (2019): Fissidens ezukanmae Brugg. - Nann., sp. nov. (Fissidentaceae, Bryopsida), a new species from termite mounds in Nigeria. Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (3): 15-18, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a3, URL: https://bioone.org/journals/cryptogamie-bryologie/volume-40/issue-1/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a3/Fissidens-ezukanmae-Brugg-Nann-sp-nov-Fissidentaceae-Bryopsida-a-New/10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a3.full
