CHR 514618 – Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 514618
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
22 December 1997
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2012-05 (Verbatim: May 2012)
Preferred name:
Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Orthotrichaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
This is an unusual form of M. gracile, but I do not know of anything else that it could be. After brief consideration, I do not think that it deserves description. The colour is more yellow-green than I associate with this species and the plants are relatively small in size. More importantly the leaf subulae are very strongly developed and thickened in appearance with the “laminal cells” rather irregular in shape, mostly longer than wide and from 6-15 (-18) μm in greater dimension. In cross-section the subulae is clearly bistratose in the “lamina” and multi-stratose where filled by the costa.
I note that AJF 11291 (CHR 514619) from the same locality and quite likely from the same Cornyocarpus trunk is more representative of M. gracile.
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.
Determiner:
Fife AJ
Identification date:
1997-12-09 (Verbatim: 9-DEC-1997)
Preferred name:
Macromitrium gracile (Hook.) Schwägr.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Nikau Bush Scenic Reserve, upper fenced portion of Reserve, just S of conspicuous grove of nikau palms
Verbatim locality:
Nikau Bush Scenic Reserve, upper fenced portion of Reserve, just S of conspicuous grove of nikau palms.
Verbatim collector:
Fife AJ 11290
Standardised collector:
Allan J. Fife
Verbatim date:
9-DEC-1997
Start date:
1997-12-09
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Native lands:
Moriori
Moriori
Ngati Mutunga o Wharekauri
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
CH1 442 763 (WGS84 -43.762801 -176.571426)
Abundance:
Occasional
Altitudes:
from 40m
Habitat:
Rather open regeneratig Cornyocarpus laevigatus forest with scattered understory of C. laevigatus, Melicytus, Pseudopanax chathamica.
Abundance:
Occasional
Notes:
On trunk of Cornyocarpus; with M. ramsayae.
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