Bartramia alaris Dixon & Sainsbury (1933)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1929
"Known [in Australia] only from several collections made by W.W.Watts in 1899 from one locality in eastern N.S.W.; rare in New Zealand. The Australian specimens were recorded from soil on a river bank, growing with Triquetrella, as also noted in New Zealand."
(Bell, 2012:3)
"This species has been collected only once [in New Zealand] in 1929 from pasture at Havelock North (Hawkes Bay) and it has not been seen since though no one has specifically searched for it either (see Glenny et al. 2011)."
(de Lange, 2022)
Distribution
Havelock North, Hawke's Bay district, North Island, New Zealand & New South Wales, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: Mosses, Bartramia alaris Dixon & Sainsbury, collected January 1929, Havelock North, Endsleigh., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (M005750)
Above: Mosses, Bartramia alaris Dixon & Sainsbury, collected January 1929, Havelock North, Endsleigh., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (M005750)
References
Bell, Graham H. (2012). Australian Mosses Online. 42. Bartramiaceae: Bartramia. https://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/Mosses_online/Bartramiaceae_Bartramia.pdf (2012)
de Lange, P.J. (2022). Bartramia alaris Fact Sheet (content continuously updated). New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/bartramia-alaris/ (Accessed 10 April 2022)
Glenny, D., Fife, A. J., Brownsey, P. J., Renner, M. A. M., Braggins, J. E., Beever, J. E. and Hitchmough, R. (2011). Threatened and uncommon bryophytes of New Zealand (2010 Revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 49: 305-327.
Sainsbury, G. O. K. (1955). A handbook of the New Zealand mosses. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 5.
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