Ptychostomum gayanum (Mont. ex Müll.Hal.) Ochyra & Bedn.

Spence, John R., 2022, Studies in Austral Bryaceae (Bryopsida). IV. New records from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), with a phytogeographic analysis of the family, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (15), pp. 211-224 : 215

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2022v43a15

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7822557

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ptychostomum gayanum (Mont. ex Müll.Hal.) Ochyra & Bedn.
status

 

* Ptychostomum gayanum (Mont. ex Müll.Hal.) Ochyra & Bedn. View in CoL -Ochyra

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Falkland Islands. West Falkland, Crooked Inlet , Roy Cove , 51°32’56.4”S, 60°23’6”W, in pasture with gorse, 15 m a.s.l., 17.I.2011, 11/281 ( MNH); GoogleMaps East Falkland, Mt. Kent, east of gate at summit , 51°40’26.4”S, 58°6’25.2”W, on ground in flush, 432 m a.s.l., 20.I.2015, 15/54 ( MNH). GoogleMaps

NOTES

Common in Tierra del Fuego and on Îles Kerguelen but also extending north to south-central Chile ( Müller 2009). It is an autoicous species related to Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) J.R.Spence & H.P.Ramsay ex Holyoak & N.Pedersen , but with a reduced peristome and larger spores. A southern hemisphere/South American temperate-subantarctic (Îles Kerguelen only) species.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Bryophyta

Class

Bryopsida

Order

Bryales

Family

Bryaceae

Genus

Ptychostomum

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