Checklist of Plants of India

Drepanolejeunea angustifolia (Mitt.) Grolle, J. Jap. Bot. 40: 206. 1965.

Lejeunea angustifolia Mitt., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 5: 116. 1861..

Jungermannia tenuis Reinw., Blume & Nees, Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 12: 226. 1824.

Drepanolejeunea tenuis (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Schiffn., Consp. Hepat. Arch. Ind. 280. 1898.

Physocolea angustifolia (Mitt.) Steph., Sp. Hepat. 5: 887. 1916.

Drepanolejeunea longifolia Ajit P. Singh & V.Nath, Hepat. Khasi Jaintia Hills: E. Himal. 248. 2007 & Bryologist 111: 477. 2008.

Distribution: India [AN: Middle Andaman, Billy ground (D.K. Singh & al., 2006a; Dey & al., 2013); AR: Tawang (Rawat & Verma, 2014); KL: Idukki, Eravikulam NP, Amarshole (Manju & al., 2008, 2012); ML: Elephant Falls, Mawphlong (A.P. Singh & Nath, 2007a; A.P. Singh & al., 2008); SK: without specific locality (Mitten, 1861 as L. angustifolia), North Sikkim, Khangchendzonga BR, Passidong – Dzongu (Dey & D.K. Singh, 2012); TN: Nilgiri BR, Doddabetta (Udar & U.S. Awasthi, 1982c), Kanyakumari, Upper Kodaiyar (Daniels & Daniel, 2013); WB: Rimbick, Sandakphu – Tonglu (Hattori, 1966), Tonglu (Udar & U.S. Awasthi, 1982c; Mizutani, 1963, both as D. tenuis), above Mungpoo (Zhu & Long, 2003)], Bhutan (Long & Grolle, 1990), Cambodia (Zhu & So, 2001), China (Piippo, 1990), Fiji (Söderström & al., 2011), Indonesia (Söderström & al., 2010), Japan (Yamada & Iwatsuki, 2006), Malaysia (ChuahPetiot, 2011), Nepal (Hattori, 1975a; Pradhan & Joshi, 2009), New Caledonia (Thouvenot & al., 2011), Papua New Guinea (Grolle & Piippo, 1984), Philippines (Tan & Engel, 1986), Sri Lanka (Onraedt, 1981; Long & Rubasinghe, 2014), Taiwan (Wang & al., 2011), Thailand (Lai & al., 2008), Vietnam (Zhu & So, 2001). Note: Drepanolejeunea longifolia was described from East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya as an epiphyte growing on the bark of trees (A.P. Singh & Nath, 2007a; A.P. Singh & al., 2008). But, recently He and Zhu (2014) have reduced it to the synonymy of D. angustifolia. The same has been followed here.