This collection was considered to be Drepanocladus fontinaliopsis (Mull.Hal.) Dixon by either Allison or Sainsbury.
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Drepanocladus fontinaliopsis (C.M.) Dix.
Determiner:
Sainsbury GOK
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis (Müll.Hal.) Ochyra
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Lake Rotorua. North Island
Verbatim locality:
Lake Rotorua. North Island
Verbatim collector:
K.W. Allison No. 437
Standardised collector:
Kenneth W. Allison
Verbatim date:
13th Oct. 1930
Start date:
1930-10-13
Land District:
South Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
Herbarium of G. O. K. Sainsbury No 2960
Supplementary remarks:
N.Z. records of Drepanocladus fontinaliopsis were based initially on collections made in 1874 by S. Berggen at/near Rotorua. Berggren’s 2577 (CHR 580343; WELT M4879) has been examined; it is a distinctive and slender form of W. fluitans with leaves straight, ± erect, and sharply denticulate, and the costa poorly defined and short (c. ¼ the leaf). A suite of morphologically similar collections, mostly from the Lake Rotorua, have likewise been examined. This suite includes K.W. Allison 437 (CHR 580344, WELT M4880) and 2728 (CHR 585923). In my opinion this material is W. fluitans and Drepanocladus fontinaliopsis is not worthy of taxonomic segregation.
Allan Fife, march 2006