CHR 604746 – Meteoriopsis reclinata (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 604746
Specimen type:
Packet
Database record added:
22 September 2009
Database record updated:
30 January 2024
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Meteoriopsis reclinata (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2009-09 (Verbatim: September 2009)
Preferred name:
Meteoriopsis reclinata (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
Division:
Bryophyta
Class:
Bryatae
Family:
Meteoriaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Raoul Island, Moumoukai Ridge, Kermadec Islands
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
29.268385 S 177.909016 W (WGS84 -29.268385 -177.909016)
Verbatim locality:
Kermadec Islands, Raoul I [Island], Moumoukai Track, Summit Ridge
Verbatim collector:
P.J. de Lange K498 & D. C. Havell
Standardised collector:
Peter J. de Lange; D. C. Havell
Verbatim date:
8 . 5 . 2009
Start date:
2009-05-08
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Native lands:
Te Aupōuri
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
29.266285 S 177.90640 W (WGS84 -29.266285 -177.9064)
Altitudes:
from 485m
Habitat:
in 'wet' forest. Admixed through Sticta samoensis on Ascarina lucida var. lanceolata
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Plants robust, epiphytic, creeping, yellow-green to brown-yellow. Stems sparsely branched. Leaves spreading, lanceolate and narrowly acuminate, weakly clasping but not auriculate at base, strongly serrulate above, rather weakly serrulate below and nearly to base, both weakly twisted and weakly undulate at apex, mostly c. 3.5 mm. Mid laminal cells linear-fusiform, mostly with only 1-2 papaillae on each surface, strongly porose, apparently most 30–¬42 µm long (but the outline/limit of each cell mostly obscure and apparently longer near costa); alar cells oblong or subquadrate, forming a small group c. 4 cells wide and 4–5 cell high. Costa thin, mostly extending to mid-leaf or somewhat beyond.
Sex organs not seen. No sporophytes.
K: (Moumoukai Track on Summit Ridge). Reported by Streimann (1991) from Queensland and as “widespread in southeast Asia extending from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan, Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu.”
The sole N.Z. (K) specimen came from the bark of Ascarina lucida var. lanceolata in “wet forest” at 485 m.
P. de Lange (pers. Comm., 15 Sept. 2009) described this material as “like a spiky Ptychomnion acciculare but epiphytic and with a non-tufted, widely creeping growth habit.” Miscroscopic examination shows the laminal cells to be papillose (albeit weakly so) and the costa to be single, thin, and extending to somewhat past mid leaf, all common character states in the Meteoriaceae.
On first impression the single K collection appears to have less strongly spirally twisted leaves than material of M. reclinata from Queensland and PNG available for comparison. The is also a tendency for the K material to have leaves less strongly reflexed and moderately plicate when dry. The relatively patent (rather than squarrose) nature of the leaves of the K material may be due to the collection consisting mainly of secondary stems (sensu Streimann). Given the variability of M. reclinata in other portions of its range and the modest size of the K collection, it would be unwise to make too much taxonomically of these apparent, but modest, distinctions.
Allan Fife, September 2009
Allan Fife, September 2009
Duplicates
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Direction:
Sent
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