Fissidens capitatus Hook.f. & Wilson

NZOR Identifier: 6d75f097-b128-442c-aa6e-d7990bed54f1

Status

Preferred Name (NZOR Concept Id 94026bfa-1075-482e-9397-e227fc39dadd)

Classification

superkingdom
Eukaryota
kingdom
Plantae
division
Bryophyta
class
Bryopsida
subclass
Dicranidae
order
Dicranales
family
Fissidentaceae
genus
Fissidens
species
Fissidens capitatus 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
Endemic
In Use
True

Scientific Name

Authority
Hook.f. & Wilson
Rank
species
Published in
Hooker, J.D.; Wilson, W. 1844: Musci Antarctici; being characters with brief descriptions of the new species of Mosses discovered during the voyage of H.M. Discovery ships, Erebus and Terror, in the southern circumpolar regions, together with those of Tasmania and New Zealand. London journal of botany 3: 533-556.
Micro-reference (page)
547
Year
1844
Nomenclatural Comment
The epithet capitatus (“with a knob at the tip”) presumably refers to the setae, each of which bears a short, broad, curved theca., Lectotype: N.Z., Bay of Islands, J.D. Hooker 321, BM-Wilson! (Designated by Iwatsuki & Suzuki 1988, p. 218.), "Hooker & Wilson (1844) described F. oblongifolius and F. capitatus as new species, both based on Bay of Islands types collected by J.D. Hooker. In the protologue F. oblongifolius is stated to differ from F. capitatus “in the linear obtuse leaves, of firmer texture, and more intense yellowish green colour; also in the position of the perigonia”. Subsequently, F. capitatus was reduced to a variety of F. oblongifolius (Hooker 1867), with the only distinguishing feature mentioned being leaf shape: “linear, ligulate, obtuse” in var. α [oblongifolius], vs “linear-lanceolate, acuminate” in var. β [capitatus]. Dixon (1923) and Sainsbury (1955a) both accepted F. capitatus as a variety of F. oblongifolius, but with reservations. For his part, Sainsbury (1955a, p. 53) commented, “I have seen very little of this species or of the variety, both having been seldom collected in New Zealand.” He cites two localities for the species, “Poor Knights Islands” and “Bay of Islands”. The former record is no doubt based on L.B. Moore 657, with duplicates in WELT-Sainsbury and CHR. That collection is a mixture of F. leptocladus, F. asplenioides and F. curvatus, and the present author found no F. capitatus in it. The only “Bay of Islands” specimen identified as F. oblongifolius in the Sainsbury Herbarium is a specimen (V.W. Lindauer s.n., WELT M007726) collected in Nov. 1940 “in cave beneath Rainbow Falls, Keri Keri”, but that specimen is F. strictus Hook.f. & Wilson. Dixon (1923, p. 106) considered the differences in the shape of the leaf apex, as described by Hooker, were “often not well marked” and that “intermediate forms occur”. However, all N.Z. material labelled “F. oblongifolius var. capitatus” in Herb. Dixon (excluding types) is incorrectly identified in my opinion: of the three specimens, two are F. pallidus and the third F. waiensis. A further specimen labelled by Dixon as “F. asplenioides” is F. oblongifolius s.s. Thus the concepts both G.O.K. Sainsbury and H.N. Dixon had of F. oblongifolius s.l. were compromised. Fissidens capitatus and F. hyophilus were reduced to synonymy of F. oblongifolius by BruggemanNannenga et al. (1994), and later treated as varieties of F. oblongifolius by Beever & Stone (1998). Further familiarisation with all three taxa, in the field and the herbarium, leads me to the conclusion that all three are distinct in ecology and morphology, with no intermediate forms observed among more than 100 specimens, and hence deserving of specific status. Numerous additional synonyms proposed for F. oblongifolius by Bruggeman-Nannenga et al. (1994) (but not recorded for N.Z.) have not been considered for this treatment."
Governing Code
ICBN
Is Recombination
No

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
94026bfa-1075-482e-9397-e227fc39dadd
According to
Beever, J.E. 2014: Fissidentaceae. In: Heenan, P.B.; Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. Flora of New Zealand — Mosses. Fascicle 8. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Has Parent
Fissidens (In use by NZOR)
Preferred Name
Fissidens capitatus Hook.f. & Wilson (In use by NZOR) }

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
d9232950-aee6-407b-871b-2b9aab6ebb9d
According to
Hooker, J.D.; Wilson, W. 1844: Musci Antarctici; being characters with brief descriptions of the new species of Mosses discovered during the voyage of H.M. Discovery ships, Erebus and Terror, in the southern circumpolar regions, together with those of Tasmania and New Zealand. London journal of botany 3: 533-556.
Preferred Name
Fissidens capitatus Hook.f. & Wilson }

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
941faa5b-8e42-48af-a421-58c2a6bd1bd1
According to
Hooker, J.D.; Wilson, W. 1844: Musci Antarctici; being characters with brief descriptions of the new species of Mosses discovered during the voyage of H.M. Discovery ships, Erebus and Terror, in the southern circumpolar regions, together with those of Tasmania and New Zealand. London journal of botany 3: 533-556.
Preferred Name
Fissidens capitatus Hook.f. & Wilson }

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
0ed44ede-2734-4265-8852-82c8a67bcdcf
According to
NZFLORA (2012-) New Zealand Plant Names - Name based concepts
Has Parent
Fissidens

Taxon Concept

NZOR Concept Id
592b38f9-6b54-4b2a-80e6-b5d3cded74b1
According to
Beever, J.E.; Stone, I.G. 1998: Studies in Fissidens (Bryophyta: Musci) in New Zealand: Section Amblyothallia . New Zealand Journal of Botany 36(1): 71-90.
Preferred Name
Fissidens oblongifolius var. capitatus (Hook.f. & Wilson) Hook.f. & Wilson }

No subordinate taxa

No vernacular applications

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