A New Species of Diploid Quillwort ( Isoetes , Isoetaceae, Lycophyta) from Lebanon

2011·2.4 MB·English

by  Jay F Bolin

Volume 21 NO VON
Number 3 VJK
2011
A New Species of Diploid Quillwort (.Isoetes, Isoetaceae, Lycophyta)
from Lebanon
Jay F. Bolin,1'2 Rebecca D. Bray,2 and Lytton John Musselman2*
department of Botany. Smithsonian Institution, NMNH MRC 166, P.0. Box 37012,
Washington D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A. Current address: Department of Biology, Catawba College,
2300 W. Lines Si.. Sali-Lmx. \orlh Carolina 28144, U.S.A. [email protected]
department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0266,
U.S.A. [email protected]
* Author for correspondence: [email protected]
ABSTRUT A new species. Isoetes libanotua Mus¬
selman, Bolin & R. D. Bray (Isoetaceae, Lycophyta),
338 to 477 pm with remote, low tuberculate oma-
(K. Knio, pers. comm.). Recently, Musselman and Al-
each in Turkey and Syria (Bolin et al., 2008). From
sp. nov. TYPE: Lebanon. Akkar Distr.: 339 m,
34'37.163"N, 36'14.976"E, 13 Apr. 2009, M.
S. Al-Zein & L. J. Musselman 2UU9-39c (holo-
type, MO; isotype, BEI). Figure 1.
species (Bolin et al., 2008). This paper describes an
Uth (10 to)20(to 50) sporophylls (leaves) (2-)4(—6)
doi: 10.3417/2010028 Novon 21: 295-298. Published on 9 September 2011.
296 Novon
et al.
2011
Novon
Isoetaceae) with terrestrial habitat in Calabria (Italy). New
karvological and taxonomical data. FI. Medit. 11: 303-309.
IlICN. 2001. IlICN Red List Categories and Criteria,
Version 3.1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival