Sphaerolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Porellales) is a synonym of Lejeunea

Phylogenetic analyses of a three marker dataset of Lejeuneaceae (chloroplast genome rbc L gene and trn L-F region, and nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS-2 region) show the presence of the monospecific genus Sphaerolejeunea in a robust subclade of Lejeunea . We treat Sphaerolejeunea as a synonym of Lejeunea , and propose a new name for Sphaerolejeunea umbilicata , Lejeunea drehwaldii .