CHR 240568 – Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 240568
Type status:
Paratype
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
12 June 2007
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife
Determiner:
Fife, A.J.
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Sematophyllaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
In New Zealand J. Bot. 50: 442 (2012)
Type status:
Paratype
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2007-12 (Verbatim: Dec 2007)
Preferred name:
Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
comb. nov. in sched. (not type material)
Identification
Determined name:
Wijkia extenuata (Brid.) Crum
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2007-02 (Verbatim: Feb. 2007)
Preferred name:
Wijkia extenuata (Brid.) H.A.Crum
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
stem leaves abruptly tapered, with flagelliferous branches.
Identification
Determined name:
Wijkia undescribed taxon (northern, flagellate)
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2007-10 (Verbatim: October 2007)
Preferred name:
Wijkia H.A.Crum
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
Sterile, bur not searched for sex organs. Anomalous and not representative of W. [wijkia] extenuata.
Identification
Determined name:
Sematophyllum contiguum (Mitt.) Mitt.
Determiner:
Jetter Lewinsky
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum subhumile var. contiguum (Mitt.) B.C.Tan, W.B.Schofield & H.P.Ramsay
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
North Island, Leigh
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-36.2951 174.803
Verbatim locality:
North Island, Leigh
Verbatim collector:
Jette Lewinsky 74-439
Standardised collector:
Jette Lewinsky
Verbatim date:
23.9.1974
Start date:
1974-09-23
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki
Ngāti Manuhiri
Ngāti Maru (Hauraki)
Ngāti Whanaunga
Ngāti Whātua
Ngātiwai
Te Kawerau a Maki
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
R9 72- 43- (WGS84 -36.295138 174.803345)
Habitat:
Epiphytic
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
Museum Botanicum Hauniense
Bryophytes of New Zealand
No 74-439
Supplementary remarks:
I consider this to be an highly instructive specimen. I now believe (12 Oct 2007) that this form of Wikjia deserves recognition at either the varietal or species level.
Flagellate microphyllous branches present: leaves decidedly dimorphic but the stem leaves less abruptly than in representatve W. [Wijkia] extenuata; abaxial laminal papillae (rather inconspicuous but clearly visibly in upper portion of branch leaves (an entire branch wet-mounted).
Stem leaves 1.2-1.4 × 0.4-0.5 mm (apparently best developed nr. [near] stem apex), rather abruptly tapered from a broadly ovate base to a narrowly acuminate apex; mid-laminal cells linear-rhombic, 38-54 × c. 6 µm, firm-walled not porose; basal cells shorter, strongly porose, and weakly yellow-pigmented in a few rows; Alar cells highly differentiated, 3-4 cells higly inflated and thin-walled in the basal row, with 3-4 cells above strongly inflated but slightly smaller and with several ± irregular supra-alar cells
Well-developed branch leaves ovate-lanceolate, ± evenly tapered to a narrowly acaute apex, mostly 0.7-0.8 mm (under coverslip), entire; Upper laminal cells of br [branch] leaves linear-rhombic, 38-54 × c.6 µm, firm-walled, not porose, with low seriate papillae on abaxial surface.
Allan Fife, October 2007
Allan Fife, October 2007
Type:
Paratype of Wijkia extenuata var. caudata Fife, New Zealand J. Bot. 50: 442 (2012)
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