CHR 532705 – Sematophyllum fiordensis Fife
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 532705
Type status:
Isotype
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
17 December 1999
Database record updated:
11 February 2024
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Sematophyllum fiordensis Fife
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2012 (Verbatim: 2012)
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum fiordensis Fife
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Sematophyllaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
N.Z.J.Botany 50: 436 (2012)
ISOTYPE (Holotype in WELT)
Type status:
Isotype
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Sematophyllum undescribed species "fiordensis"
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2008-02 (Verbatim: February 2008)
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum Mitt.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Dicnemon sp. nov.
Determiner:
Bruce Allen
Identification date:
2000-03 (Verbatim: March 2000)
Preferred name:
Dicnemon Schwägr.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Blindia
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
1999-12 (Verbatim: December-1999)
Preferred name:
Blindia Bruch & Schimp.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Blindia ?
Determiner:
P.J. Brownsey
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Blindia Bruch & Schimp.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
"Sematophyllum" sp. nov.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2000-02 (Verbatim: February-2000)
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum Mitt.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Identification
Determined name:
Dicnemon undescribed species
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2006-12 (Verbatim: Dec. 2006)
Preferred name:
Dicnemon Schwägr.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Duck Cove, Resolution Island, Fiordland
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-45.7479 166.662
Verbatim locality:
Duck Cove, Resolution Island, Fiordland
Verbatim collector:
P.J. Brownsey
Standardised collector:
Patrick J. Brownsey
Verbatim date:
14 Feb 1985
Start date:
1985-02-14
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Southland Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 1:
S156 883 749 (WGS84 -45.747959 166.662076)
Altitudes:
from 6m
Habitat:
Mountian beech/kamahi/rimu forest. Dripping wet vertical rock face, clearing in forest.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
I was just remounting the type specimen of Alan's odd moss from N.Z. I am sure it belongs in Dicnemon. There clearly are nematogen leaf cells in the apex and those just above the alar cells are more convincing than they appeared the other day. I'm so sure of this placement that if Alan describes it in Sematophyllaceae or Isopytergiopsis I will transfer it into Dicnemon.
Bruce Allen, March 2000
Bruce Allen, March 2000
Supplementary remarks:
Stems lacking central strand. (Bartlett & Vitt claim c.s. is present in Blindia). Leaves unistratose throughout - a weakly differentiated central area of narrower cells can be seen in the lower leaf and this is suggestive of a costa.
A large alar group (c. 4 x 4 cells) are inflated and hyaline - suggestive of a Dicranum.
Cells linear & thick-walled throughout; ± porose near base only.
AJF [Fife AJ]
AJF [Fife AJ]
Supplementary remarks:
The most surprising feature of this plant is that the laminae are entirely unistratose. There is no costae, although at low magnification there is a weakly differentiated, costa-like region near the leaf base composed of narrower cells--but even this region is unistratose. Leaf cells are linear and thick-walled throughout.
In habit this material is very suggestive of a Blindia, however, the absence of a multi-stratose costa and the absence of a central strand seem to preclude its placement there.
The well-differentiated alar group are to me suggestive of some Dicranum species, more than a Blindia. However, I believe that the absence of a well-developed costae rules out the Dicranaceae more or less entirely. I haved toyed with the idea that it could belong to a pleurocarpous family (like Sematophyllaceae ?) but I am completely put-off this possibility by its dicranoid habit. So what group is left?! I am confident that it is not a species recorded from this part of the world.
AJF [Fife AJ, Sept 1990
AJF [Fife AJ, Sept 1990
Supplementary remarks:
I really do not believe this is a Blindia, but think it is best filed here as an interim convenience (in part because it is so-filed in WELT).
I continue to be perplexed by this plant and suspect that there is no genus known from Australasia than can accomodate it. I have again (1999) sectioned leaves and find them to be entirely unistratose, even just a few cells above the leaf base. The observations which I made in 1990 are accurate. Unfortunately, there appear to be no sex organs present. Because of its habit, I am still inclined to think it as dicranaceous (or possibly allied to Blindia), but I could not rule out the possibility that it is a pleurocarp.
Allan Fife, December 1999
Allan Fife, December 1999
Supplementary remarks:
I believe this plant belongs in Sematophyllaceae, but am suggesting that it be filed under Sematophyllum only as a convenience. It was formerly tentatively named as Blindia in both CHR & WELT.
Allan Fife, February 2000
Allan Fife, February 2000
Herbarium history:
Dupl. ex Herb. National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand (WELT). No.M7945.
Supplementary remarks:
Specimen used for illustration for Moss Flora of New Zealand
cited in Fife, A.J. N.Z. J. Bot. 50: 435-447 (2012)
Gibb ES, June 2013
Gibb ES, June 2013
Type:
Isotype of Sematophyllum fiordensis Fife, New Zealand Journal of Botany 50: 436 (2012)
Type:
Sematophyllum fiordensis Fife, N.Z.J.Botany 50: 436 (2012)
ISOTYPE. (Holotype in WELT)
Allan Fife, 2012
Allan Fife, 2012
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