''Radula jonesii'' is a species of
liverwort
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ...
in the family
Radulaceae. It is known from a few locations on
Madeira
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and one location on
Tenerife
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. The populations are small and vulnerable.
This liverwort forms dark green to olive green mats on rocks or on trees such as ''
Laurus novocanariensis
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'' and ''
Ocotea foetens''. It is part of the old growth laurel forest ecosystem on the islands. On Madeira this ecosystem is protected.
[''Radula jonesii''.]
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
References
Porellales
Plants described in 1988
Flora of the Canary Islands
Flora of Madeira
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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