Campylopus pallidus Hook.f. & Wilson

NZOR Identifier: 201c27b1-c937-48ed-a014-96fc0bdd33a3

Status

Preferred Name (NZOR Concept Id cffcb7a3-6366-4cd7-9e05-b6e9cbd200d3)

Classification

superkingdom
Eukaryota
kingdom
Plantae
division
Bryophyta
class
Bryopsida
subclass
Dicranidae
order
Dicranales
family
Dicranaceae
genus
Campylopus
species
Campylopus pallidus Hook.f. & Wilson

Providers

NZFLORA
Provider Contribution Summary

Biostatus

Geo Schema
ISO Country
Geo Region
New Zealand
Biome
Terrestrial
Environmental Context
Wild
Occurrence
Present
Origin
Non-endemic
In Use
True

Scientific Name

Authority
Hook.f. & Wilson
Rank
species
Published in
Wilson,W. 1854: Musci. In: Hooker, J.D., The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843. Wilson,W.MusciVol. 2. Flora Novae-Zelandiae Part II Flowerless plants. London, Lovell Reeve. 57-125.
Micro-reference (page)
68
Year
1854
Nomenclatural Comment
The species epithet pallidus is an obvious reference to the pale colour of the plants. The disused epithet torquatus makes reference to contorted leaves, presumably those of the often present reduced and propagula-like shoots., Lectotype: N.Z., Northern Island, Auckland, Sinclair, BM 000517611! The Sinclair collection, one of two syntypes cited in the protologue is fertile and ample. Frahm (in herb. BM) has annotated this specimen “chosen as lectotype” with an illegible date (1981?). A published statement of this lectotypification cannot be located and in Frahm (1987) he stated that he had not seen type material., "The evidence for applying the European name C. pyriformis (Schultz) Brid. [Bryol. Univ. 1: 471 (1826)] to N.Z. material is not convincing. The application of this name by several authors in Australasia dates from a brief publication by Corley & Frahm (1982). That publication outlined some confusion around the type of the basionym (Dicranum pyriforme Schultz) and confusingly stated that material described from the Azores as C. azoricus Mitt. “must be regarded as the typical form of C. pyriformis”. Corley & Frahm placed the Australasian C. pallidus Hook.f. & Wilson in the synonymy of C. pyriformis. The situation is rendered even more perplexing by their subsequent statement that the species in question is an Austral or Australasian species that may have been introduced to Europe in “pre-botanical” times. Subsequent publications, many authored by Frahm, have repeatedly cited the conclusions presented by Corley & Frahm (1982). Firmer evidence that Australasian material is conspecific with a European (Azorean?) species is required before the name C. pyriformis can be confidently applied to the N.Z. material. It is preferable to utilise the earliest Australasian name that can be typified for this widespread (in N.Z., Tasmania, and mainland Australia) and variable species. The name C. pallidus Hook.f. & Wilson is based on ample fruiting material from N.Z., and this name is applied here. The application of this name agrees with that favoured by Scott & Stone (1976), but is at odds with the use of C. torquatus Mitt. in Wilson by both Dixon (1923) and Sainsbury (1955a)."
Governing Code
ICBN
Is Recombination
No

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
cffcb7a3-6366-4cd7-9e05-b6e9cbd200d3
According to
Fife, A.J. [2017]: Dicranaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle ??. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Has Parent
Campylopus (In use by NZOR)
Preferred Name
Campylopus pallidus Hook.f. & Wilson (In use by NZOR) }

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
94512e10-82c5-4768-a5c2-0eb55172809e
According to
NZFLORA (2012-) New Zealand Plant Names - Name based concepts

No subordinate taxa

No vernacular applications

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