Following treatment by Allan Fife in preparation for Moss Flora of New Zealand
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Rhaphidorrhynchium tenuirostre (Hook.) Broth.
Determiner:
Allan Fife
Identification date:
2005-04 (Verbatim: April 2005)
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum uncinatum I.G.Stone & G.A.M.Scott
Active:
no
Identification type:
Confirmation
Identification
Determined name:
Sematophyllum tenuirostre (Hook.) Dixon
Determiner:
[Zotov VD]
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Sematophyllum uncinatum I.G.Stone & G.A.M.Scott
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Ruamahanga V. [Valley] Ruamahanga V. [Valley]
Verbatim locality:
Ruamahanga V. [Valley] Ruamahanga V. [Valley]
Verbatim collector:
V. D. Zotov
Standardised collector:
Victor D. Zotov
Verbatim date:
3 - 12 - 1933
Start date:
1933-12-03
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
c.fr.
- branching irregular to subpinnate
- veg. [vegetative] leaves thin, concave, entire or very slightly tooth [toothed] near apex, smooth, broadly ovate-lanceolate, constricted above base and abruptly tapered to a slender apex
- costa absent
- median laminal [cells] linear-vermiculate, firm-walled, smooth, mostly 60-75 µm long, not or weakly tapered at cell ends
- Alar cells ....5-6 cells abruptly differentiated and strongly inflated, yellow or hyaline; ± auriculate, bounded by elongate, yellow, and porose cells at the leaf base, and transitioning rapidly into ± typical laminal cells above
- Perichaetial [leaves] oblong lanceolate
- Capsule oblong-cylindric, horizontal to weakly pendulous,
- smooth setae
- Exothecial cells collenchymatous
- Operculum subulate from a conic base
Allan Fife, April 2005
Supplementary remarks:
This specimen used for illustration for Moss Flora of New Zealand
[Wagstaff R]