Bazzania trilobata Lepidoziaceae

The bryophyte literature provides many examples of disjunct distributions often involving sites that defy easy explanations for their existence. Nonetheless, they 

Species of Bazzania have been shown to be a rich source of terpene derivatives. Bazzania trilobata is no exception as evidenced by the identification of no less than 44 compounds from European collections, and 29 from plants collected in North America (Warmers and Konig, 1999). The major differences between plants from the two sides 

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