Dicranella vaginata (Hook.) Card. var. longifolia Dix. Sainsb.
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Dicranella vaginata (Hook.) Cardot
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Dicranaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Ditrichum punctulatum Mitt.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
1999-10 (Verbatim: October-1999)
Preferred name:
Ditrichum punctulatum Mitt.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Near Fox Glacier, Westland
Verbatim locality:
Near Fox Glacier, Westland
Verbatim collector:
Mrs Knight
Standardised collector:
Knight
Verbatim date:
April-1940
Start date:
1940-04
Land District:
Westland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
In forest.
Notes:
Part of type gathering. ISOTYPE of Dicranella vaginata var. longifolia Dixon & Sainsbury in Sainsbury, Trans.R.Soc.N.Z. 75: 171 (1945). (Although the subulae are much less twisted than typical for D. punctulatum, I believe this material belongs here. It is clearly a Ditrichum and not a Dicranella. The cells of the shoulders are unistratrose; sexuality is clearly dioicous. Allan Fife, October 1999.)
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
The K.W. Allison Collection, no.2619.
Herbarium history:
No.728. Herb. Mrs Hodgson, who sent it to me.
[Allison KW]
Type:
Part of type gathering
[Allison KW]
Type:
Isotype of Dicranella vaginata var. longifolia Dixon & Sainsbury, in Sainsbury, Trans. R. Soc. N.Z. 75: 171 (1945).
Allan Fife, October 1999