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Riccardia dendroides Glenny

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Riccardia dendroides Glenny, Telopea 29: 264–270 (2025)
Riccardia dendroides Glenny

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Glenny, D. (2025)
Described from a single location.

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Glenny
Glenny
Glenny, D. 2025: Riccardia dendroides (Marchantiophyta, Aneuraceae), a new alpine species in subgenus Arceoneura from Western Nelson, New Zealand. Telopea 29: 263–277. (Published online: 16 October 2025)
2025
264–270
ICN
Riccardia dendroides Glenny
species
Riccardia dendroides
Dendroides, meaning tree-like, refers to the monopodial form of the plants that have a strongly differentiated main axis and a regularly bipinnate branching form.
Type: New Zealand: Western Nelson Province, Lead Hills Range, Amphitheatre Creek below Lake Clara, 1310 m, 40.895°S, 172.56°E, seepage on granite bedrock, under cover of Empodisma minus sedgeland, with Schoenus pauciflorus, 24 Jan 2008, D. Glenny 10145 (holotype: CHR 595044).

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Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Metzgeriales
Aneuraceae
Riccardia
dendroides

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Riccardia dendroides Glenny
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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typification
Type: New Zealand: Western Nelson Province, Lead Hills Range, Amphitheatre Creek below Lake Clara, 1310 m, 40.895°S, 172.56°E, seepage on granite bedrock, under cover of Empodisma minus sedgeland, with Schoenus pauciflorus, 24 Jan 2008, D. Glenny 10145 (holotype: CHR 595044).
Glenny, D. 2025: Riccardia dendroides (Marchantiophyta, Aneuraceae), a new alpine species in subgenus Arceoneura from Western Nelson, New Zealand. Telopea 29: 263–277. (Published online: 16 October 2025)
Etymology
Dendroides, meaning tree-like, refers to the monopodial form of the plants that have a strongly differentiated main axis and a regularly bipinnate branching form.
Glenny, D. 2025: Riccardia dendroides (Marchantiophyta, Aneuraceae), a new alpine species in subgenus Arceoneura from Western Nelson, New Zealand. Telopea 29: 263–277. (Published online: 16 October 2025)

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22 October 2025
24 October 2025
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