Mangawaru Plateau, Raukumara Range, Gisborne District
Verbatim locality:
Mangawaru Plateau, Raukumara Range, Gisborne District
Verbatim collector:
A. P. Druce
Standardised collector:
Anthony P. Druce
Verbatim date:
Jan 1953
Start date:
1953-01
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Gisborne Land District
Habitat:
On Dracophyllum with Cupsitdatula, Lepicolea, Frullania & Leptocolea cucullifolia.
Notes:
Type gathering in parts
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
The K. W. Allison Collection No. H. 6,912
Herbarium history:
[Dupl.] Type No 9,274 in Herb. Hodgson
Type:
Type of Acrobolbus aequaelobus E.A.Hodgs., Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z., Botany 3: 81 (1965).
Supplementary remarks:
R.M. Schuster in litt May 21st 1967 to Mrs Hodgson:- "No5.Acrobolbus aequilobus is not a Roivainenia as you now seem to thin, but a very juvenile form of Chandonanthus squarrosus; the assoicates (small Frullania; juvenile Lepicolea) speak for plants from twigs of Dracophyllum, where thery are often poorly developed. If you check your largest plant (in small micropacket) with small plants of Chandonanthus squarrosus you will find there is absolutely no difference. I, too, was once mislead by these small alpine juvenile... but fortunately not long enough to publish on it!"
R.M.Schuster, May 21st 1967