Arctoa pumila (Mitt.) Fedosov, Jan Kučera & M.Stech
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Dicranaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Dicranum aucklandicum Dixon
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
1986-08 (Verbatim: Aug. 86)
Preferred name:
Arctoa pumila (Mitt.) Fedosov, Jan Kučera & M.Stech
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Dicranum aucklandicum Dixon
Determiner:
[Dixon HN]
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Arctoa pumila (Mitt.) Fedosov, Jan Kučera & M.Stech
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Trichostomum falcatum R.Br.bis
Determiner:
[Brown R]
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Arctoa pumila (Mitt.) Fedosov, Jan Kučera & M.Stech
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Lake Te Anau, South Fiord
Verbatim locality:
Lake Te Anau, South Fiord
Verbatim collector:
R. Brown
Standardised collector:
R. Brown
Verbatim date:
December 1889
Start date:
1889-12
Land District:
Southland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Damp ground
Notes:
Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 29: 480 (1897)
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
Transferred from Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (CANTY) May 1975
Type:
Type of Trichostomum falcatum R.Br.bis, Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 29: 480 (1897)
Supplementary remarks:
Dicranum aucklandicum Dixon
Probable type materail of Trichostomum falcatum R. Br., Trans. N. Z. Inst. 29: 480, 1897.
Given the correlation between the specimens on this sheet and Brown's publication, I suspect that this material is the type. Dixon referred to two Brown collections, one from the South Fiord of Lake Te Anau, which Brown himself cites as the provenance of the type specimen.
Allan Fife, Aug. 86