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Riccardia prorata Glenny

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Riccardia prorata Glenny, Telopea 29: 300–303 (2025)
Riccardia prorata Glenny
Glenny, D. 2025: A new minute Riccardia species from penalpine tussockland in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Telopea 29: 299–306. (Published online: 20 November 2025)

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Glenny
Glenny
Glenny, D. 2025: A new minute Riccardia species from penalpine tussockland in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Telopea 29: 299–306. (Published online: 20 November 2025)
2025
300–303
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Riccardia prorata Glenny
species
Riccardia prorata
The epithet prorata refers to the obliquely projecting cells of the epidermis, a feature not shared with any other Riccardia species in New Zealand or Australia. Prora means prow in Greek.
Type: New Zealand, Canterbury, Craigieburn Range, Craigieburn skifield, Alan’s Basin, 800 m east of Craigieburn Valley Ski Club skifield, 43.109°S 171.709°E, 1335 m, Chionochloa pallens / Celmisia walkeri tussockland on hillslope, on A-horizon soil and damp decomposed C. pallens leaf litter in damp hollows underneath tussocks, 8 Mar 2025, D. Glenny 15813, Male and female (holo: CHR 699119)

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Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Aneuraceae
Riccardia
prorata

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Riccardia prorata Glenny
Riccardia prorata Glenny 2025
Glenny, D. (2025)
Riccardia prorata Glenny
Riccardia Gray

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Riccardia prorata Glenny
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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typification
Type: New Zealand, Canterbury, Craigieburn Range, Craigieburn skifield, Alan’s Basin, 800 m east of Craigieburn Valley Ski Club skifield, 43.109°S 171.709°E, 1335 m, Chionochloa pallens / Celmisia walkeri tussockland on hillslope, on A-horizon soil and damp decomposed C. pallens leaf litter in damp hollows underneath tussocks, 8 Mar 2025, D. Glenny 15813, Male and female (holo: CHR 699119)
Glenny, D. 2025: A new minute Riccardia species from penalpine tussockland in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Telopea 29: 299–306. (Published online: 20 November 2025)
Etymology
The epithet prorata refers to the obliquely projecting cells of the epidermis, a feature not shared with any other Riccardia species in New Zealand or Australia. Prora means prow in Greek.
Glenny, D. 2025: A new minute Riccardia species from penalpine tussockland in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Telopea 29: 299–306. (Published online: 20 November 2025)

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11 December 2025
11 December 2025
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