Neckera douglasii

Neckera douglasii View in CoL ( Fig. 4 A–D)

Pellucid area around the bud is rather clear ( Fig. 4B) or only moderately so ( Fig. 4E) and the branch area thus falls inside the ring of outermost proximal branch leaves. The latter are either entire (e.g. # 2 in Fig. 4A and Fig. 4C), or subdivided into two to four parts. More parts are usually seen in the first and second proximal branch leaves, although the progressive diminishing of the number of leaf parts is not a strict rule: bud shown in Fig. 4A has more strongly divided fourth leaf, and in addition to being compound, one of its part (arrowed) is strongly incised.