Dicranella lorentzii (Müll. Hal.) Kindb. (1889)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonymys: Aongstroemia lorentzii Müll.Hal., Linnaea 43: 389 (1882).; Dichodontium lorentzii (Müll.Hal.) Paris, Index Bryologicus: 322 (1894).; Anisothecium lorentzii (Müll.Hal.) Broth. in Engl., Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Ed. 2, 10: 178 (1924).; Dicranella lorentzii (Müll.Hal.) Broth. [incorrect authorship; used by (Suárez et al., 2013:53,54)]
Considered a synonym of Dicranella hookeri by (Ochyra & Bednarek-Ochyra, 2014).
Conservation Status
Globally Rediscovered (Santana de Lima, 2026) or Invalid (synonym of Dicranella hookeri) (Ochyra & Bednarek-Ochyra, 2014)
Last record: 1872 (Suárez et al., 2013)
Rediscovered in: 2010 (Suárez et al., 2013)
Distribution & Habitat
north-western Argentina
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Müller, C. (1882). Prodromus bryologiae argentinicae II, seu musci lorentziani argentinici. Linnaea 43: 341-486.
Other references:
Carmo, Dimas Marchi Do. (2019). Revisão das Espécies Neotropicais de Dicranella s.l. (Dicranellaceae, Bryophyta). Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto de Botânica da Secretaria de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ochyra, Ryszard and Bednarek-Ochyra, Halina. (2014). Dicranella hookeri (Dicranaceae, Bryophyta) in northern Argentina. Telopea 17: 331-335. https://doi.org/10.7751/telopea20147998
Santana de Lima, Isabele Souza. (2026). The world’s rediscovered mosses / Världens återupptäckta mossor. Bachelor's thesis, Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Karlstad University. 15 pp.
Suárez, Guillermo M., Larraín, Juan and Schiavone, María M. (2013). Rediscovery and lectotypification of Dicranella lorentzii (Dicranellaceae, Bryophyta). Boletín de la Sociedad Argetina de Botánica 48(1): 53-57. [Abstract]