A FEW EPIPHYLLOUS LIVERWORTS COLLECTED BY DAVID J. MABBERLEY IN NEW CALEDONIA

Abstract

David J. Mabberley in 1984, as the Dean of Wadham College at Oxford University, made a plant collection trip to the Eastern Melanesian New Caledonia in the Southern Pacific. This collection included some epiphyllous bryophytes too, which were kindly sent to me for identification. Although the number of liverwort species on the leaves was not more then seven, one of them, Cololejeunea triapiculata proved to be new for New Caledonia, while three endemics, Cololejeunea caledonica, C. virotana and Radula vieillardii became known from new localities from the island.