The genus Cololejeunea (Spruce) Steph. (Marchantiophyta Lejeuneaceae) on Lord Howe Island

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The first author is grateful to the Lord Howe Island Board for permission to collect on Lord Howe Island, the New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Service for providing a scientific research permit for field work, LHI Board staff for their generous assistance with transport, accommodation and field resources, and Peter Meagher and Michele Kohout for assisting with collections. Field work on Lord Howe Island was undertaken as part of the first author's doctoral studies, and was supported by a grant from The University of Melbourne Botany Foundation through the G.A.M. Scott Research Award. The second author owes thanks to the late Elizabeth Brown for sending her interesting specimen to him for identification, and to the Hungarian Natural History Museum (BP) for the use of the Hitachi S-2055 N scanning electron microscope, and to Dr. Krisztina Buczko for her kind help with its operation.