Colura irrorata (Spruce) Heinrichs, Y.Yu, Schäf.-Verw. & Pócs
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Myriocolea irrorata Spruce (1884)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 1857 (Gradstein et al., 2004)
Rediscovered on 25 September 2002 (Gradstein & Nöske, 2002; Gradstein et al., 2004)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Río Numpatakaima, Río Topo (=Topo river) & Río Zuñac, Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Spruce, R. M. (1884). Hepaticae Amazonicae et Andinae. Tribus I: Jubulae. Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society Edinburgh 15: 1-308.
Other references:
Bryophyte Specialist Group. (2000). Myriocolea irrorata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39228A10177704. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39228A10177704.en. Accessed on 15 April 2022.
Gradstein, S. Robbert. (1992). Threatened bryophytes of the neotropical rain forest: a status report. Tropical Bryology 6:83–93.
Gradstein, S. Robbert and Benitez, Angel. (2014). A second locality for the critically endangered Colura irrorata (Lejeuneaceae) in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Bryology 36: 151-155. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743282013Y.0000000088
Gradstein, S. Robbert and Nöske, N. (2002). The extraordinary hepatic Myriocolea irrorata rediscovered. Bryol. Times 107: 16.
Gradstein, S. Robbert, Reiner-Drehwald, M. E. and Jost, L. (2004). The systematic position and distribution of Myriocolea irrorata (Lejeuneaceae), an endangered liverwort of the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 95: 235-248.
Hallingbäck, Tomas and Hodgetts, Nick. (compilers). (2000). Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Bryophytes. IUCN/SSC Bryophyte Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 106 pp.
Heinrichs, Jochen et al. (2012). A 150 year-old mystery solved: Transfer of the rheophytic endemic liverwort Myriocolea irrorata to Colura. Phytotaxa 66: 55-64. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.66.1.9
Hilton-Taylor, C. (2000). 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Laenen, B., Shaw, B., Schneider, H., Goffinet, B., Paradis, E., Désamoré, A., Heinrichs, J., Villarreal, J. C., Gradstein, S. R., McDaniel, S. F., Long, D. G., Forrest, L. L. Hollingsworth, M. L., Crandall-Stotler, B., Davis, E. C., Engel, J., von Konrat, M., Cooper, E. D., Patiño, C. J., Cox, J., Vanderpoorten, A. and Shaw, A. J. (2014). Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts. Nature Communications 5: 5134. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6134
León-Yánez, S. (2008). Historia de la extraordinaria Myriocolea irrorata. Nuestra Ciencia 10: 38-39.
Sierra, Adriel M. et al. (2018). Divergence time analyses suggest a Miocene origin of the narrow Amazonian endemic rheophytic Ceratolejeunea temnantha (Spruce) Reiner-Drehwald (Porellales, Lejeuneaceae). Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 40(2): 55-67. https://doi.org/10.11646/bde.40.2.4
Söderström, Lars et al. (2016). World checklist of hornworts and liverworts. PhytoKeys 59: 1-828. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261
Thiers, B. M. (1984). Branching in Lejeuneaceae II. Nipponolejeuneoideae, Tuyamaelloideae and Myriocoleoideae. Lindbergia 10: 4-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20149502
Yanduún Vela, S. O. (2007). Estudio ecológico de Myriocolea irrorata Spruce (Lejeuneaceae). Tesis de Licenciatura, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.