Lammermoor Range, 4.4 km NE of Ailsa Craig via vehicle track; gully S of track
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-45.6326 169.827
Verbatim locality:
Lammermoor Range, 4.4 km NE of Ailsa Craig via vehicle track; gully S of track.
Verbatim collector:
Allan J. Fife 11437
Standardised collector:
Allan J. Fife
Verbatim date:
24 Nov 1998
Start date:
1998-11-24
Land District:
Otago Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
H43 625 036 (WGS84 -45.632545 169.82666)
Abundance:
Common
Altitudes:
from 980m
Habitat:
Stream gully with extensive Sphagnum cristatum blanket bogs, and schist outcrops, and swift, rather shallow stream.
Abundance:
Common
Notes:
Common on Sphagnum cristatum dominated seepage slope in stream gully.
This is the form of D. robustum that has been termed "Dicranum scoparium"
A little ± typical Dicranum robustum present. I believe these are one species, with "D. scoparium" being a juvenile form of bogs.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
& Dicranoloma robustum
Allan Fife, May 2008
Supplementary remarks:
Dicranum scoparium Hedw
& Dicranoloma robustum
the alar cells are partially bistratose here (I have sectioned 2 leaves from the isolated “scoparium” stem
Alar cells separated from the costa by an area of unpigmented but enlarged cells…this seems to occur in all the “scoparium” material with bistratose alars that I have recently examined (c. ten specimens)
I have also sectioned 2 leaves from the “robustum” fragment of this specimen and found them to be entirely unistratose.
Allan Fife, May 2008