Flora of New Zealand Series

Lepidozia gottscheana Lindenb. in Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees, Syn. Hepat. 206. 1845. Mastigophora gottscheana (Lindenb.) Trevis., Mem. Reale Ist. Lombardo Sci. Lett. III, 4: 416. 1877. Neolepidozia gottscheana (Lindenb.) Fulford & J.Taylor, Brittonia 11: 85. 1959. Telaranea gottscheana (Lindenb.) E.A.Hodgs., Rec. Domin. Mus. 4: 106. 1962. 

Type: New Zealand, Dusky Bay, “(Hb. Hk., L. et Lg. n. 28),” sin. coll. – c. per. + sporo. (G!, W!, Lindenberg Hepat. no. 4748).

Lepidozia gracillima Carrington & Pearson, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales ser. 2. 2: 1045. pl. XXVII. 1888. 

Type: Australia, New South Wales, “New Sydney,” Botany Bay, Whitelegge – c. ♂ (G!).

Lepidozia corticola Steph., Sp. Hepat. 3: 591. 1909. Neolepidozia corticola (Steph.) Fulford & J.Taylor, Brittonia 11: 85. 1959.

Telaranea corticola (Steph.) E.A.Hodgs., Rec. Domin. Mus. 4: 107. 1962. 

Type: New Zealand, South Is., Mt. Winterslow, (Canterbury), Mar. 1906, Beckett 457 (G!); isotype: (CHR 585838 ex herb. Beckett!).

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Leaves 4-lobed, the disc ± regularly cuneate, the disc and lobe margins straight; disc typically 4 cells high, with areolation regular, the cell divisions in distal sector mostly longitudinal, preserving a regular tiered arrangement.