A note on Radula onraedtii Yamada, a poorly known liverwort species from Western Ghats, India
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https://doi.org/10.21276/pt.2024.v1.i1.9Keywords:
Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Marchantiophyta, Radulaceae, RadulaAbstract
In present paper a poorly known species of genus Radula, R. onraedtii Yamada of Marchantiophyta from Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats is described and illustrated in bryo-flora of Western Ghats. This species is very little and scattered in distribution and is known only from very few localities of Arunachal Pradesh in Eastern Himalaya and Western Ghats in Indian bryoflora.
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