The Sonerila gigantea is a new acaulescent species found in Mallalli Falls, Kodagu District, Karnataka, India, part of the Western Ghats. This species has distinguishable characteristics like habit from the genus Sonerila worldwide. S. gigantea is compared with Sonerila wallichii Benn. & Sonerila grandis Ridl. The species shown differ in several characteristics like habit, leaf and inflorescence, described in a table form with taxonomic keys and even explained micro morphology characters like pollen and seed. This report deliberates on the new species Sonerila gigantea from the Western Ghats, India.

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The bryophytic distribution is common in moist places. The survey revealed that newly and rarely distributed Ricciaceae, Marchantiophyta were collected from the Kappath hill Gadag district region of Karnataka state in India. This species was investigated through standard articles and collected several shreds of evidence, later the specimen based on morphology study clarifies that is Riccia atromarginata Levier, which is rarely distributed and even it has not been recorded from India, therefore, the present article introduces, the newly distributed bryophyte or Marchantiophyta, belongs Ricciaceae that is R. atromarginata from India.

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