Studies in the liverwort genus Fossombronia (Metzgeriales) from southern Africa. 10. Three new species from Northern and Western Cape

Abstract

Three new species of Fossombronia from the winter rainfall area of the Northern and Western Cape are described:  F. hyalorhiza, which has colourless rhizoids and is fairly widespread, but not common; F marindae, which has purple rhi­zoids, very attractive, highly ornamented spores and is so far known from a single locality only and F. monticola.  which also has purple rhizoids, with spores irregularly ridged, often partly areolate, and is quite common but fairly variable.