Isotachis westlandica (Hodgs.) Schust.

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Rhizocaulia westlandica Hodgs., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Bot. 3: 78. 1965

Conservation Status

Rediscovered?

Long known only from the holotype collected in February 1874, and stated to have "not been observed for many decades" by (Glenny & Fife, 2005:7). But the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has at least two specimens, collected on 9 March 1992 and 8 January 2002, and identified as such in 2010 and early 2003, respectively.

Distribution

Teremakau, Westland, South Island, New Zealand

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype only?

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Other references:

de Lange, P. J., Glenny, D., Braggins, J., Renner, M. A. M., von Konrat, M., Engel, J. J., Reeb, C. and Rolfe, J. R. (2015). Conservation status of New Zealand hornworts and liverworts, 2014. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 11. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 31 pp.

de Lange, P. J., Glenny, D., Frogley, K., Renner, M. A. M., von Konrat, M., Engel, J. J., Reeb, C. and Rolfe, J. R. (2020). Conservation status of New Zealand hornworts and liverworts, 2020. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 31. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 30 pp.

Glenny, David and Fife, Allan. (2005). New Zealand's threatened bryophyte flora. Australasian Bryological Newsletter 51: 6-10.

Schuster, R. M. (1968). Studies on Hepaticae, XXIX-XLIV. A miscellany of new taxa and new range extensions. Nova Hedwigia 15: 437-529, pl. 49-67. [official redescription]

Schuster, Rudolf M. and Engel, John J. (1997). Austral Hepaticae XXIV. A revision of Isotachis Mitt. (Balantiopsaceae: Isotachidoideae) in New Zealand. 1 Hattori Bot. Lab. No. 83: 187-227.

Söderström, Lars et al. (2016). World checklist of hornworts and liverworts. PhytoKeys 59: 1-828. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261

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