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The Primitive Liverwort Takakiales is Discovered in Xizang (Tibet)

Wu Pan-Cheng, Lou Jian-Shing, Wang Mei-Zhi   

  1. (Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica)
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:1983-02-18 Published:1983-02-18
  • Contact: Wu Pan-Cheng

Abstract:

 1961, a Japanese specimen of liverworts was named as Takakia lepidozioides by
Hattori and Inoue and they treated it to establish a new order Takakiales.  1963, “Le-
pidozia ceratophylla” was determined by Grolle as the second  species  of Takakia.
Hitherto, they were found in Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Sikkim, Aleutian Island and the
Queen Charlotte Islands separately.  1980, 1982, Wang Mei-zhi collected Takakia lepi-
dozioides in the forest ground of Abies delavaya in Bomi and Zayii, Xizang. According
to it's features, it is apparet that Takakialens is the most primitive one in liverworts,
perhaps it could be treated as a kind of “living fossil”.