Mosses of Western Australia
Western Australia has relatively few species of moss; the most recent census found just 192 taxa. This represents just 10% of Australia's total moss flora, even though Western Australia accounts for about one third of the Australia by area. This relatively low diversity has been attributed to the lack of rainforest in the state.[1]
By far the majority of the state's moss species occur in the Southwest Botanical Province, with over 80% of all species, genera and families occurring there. This includes four species that are apparently endemic to the province.[1]
About 70% of Western Australia's moss taxa occur also in South Australia, and a similar proportion occur also in New South Wales. Only about 50% occur also in Queensland. About half are restricted to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and a further 10% occur also only in South America.[1]
List of mosses of Western Australia
This is a list of mosses of Western Australia,[1] with classification updated.[2]
Subclass Sphagnidae
- Sphagnum molliculum
Subclass Funariidae
- Bryobartramia novae-valesiae
- Funaria apophysata
- F. cuspidata
- F. gracilis
- F. helmsii
- F. hygrometrica
- F. muhlenbergii
- F. phymatodea
- F. producta
- F. radians
- F. salsicola
- F. subnuda
- Goniomitrium acuminatum
- G. enerve
- Gigaspermum repens
Subclass Dicranidae
- Grimmia apocarpa
- G. laevigata
- G. pulvinata
- G. trichophylla
- Racomitrium crispulum
- Ptychomitrium australe
- Archidium indicum
- A. rehmanii
- A. rothii
- Fissidens asplenioides
- F. bifrons
- F. ceylonensis
- F. gillianus
- F. gymnocarpus
- F. hebetatus
- F. leptocladus
- F. maceratus
- F. megalotis
- F. microcladus
- F. perobtusus
- F. pungens
- F. taylorii
- F. tenellus
- F. victorialis
- Ceratodon purpureus
- Ditrichum difficile
- Eccremidium arcuatum
- E. exiguum
- E. minutum
- E. pulchellum
- E. whiteleggei
- Pleuridium acuminatum
- P. ecklonii
- P. nervosum
- Bruchia brevipes
- Tremadoton acutus
- Campylopus acuminatus
- C. australis
- C. bicolor
- C. flindersii
- C. incrassatus
- C. introflexus
- C. pyriformis
- Dicranoloma billardieri
- D. diaphanoneurum
- Leucobryum subchlorophyllosum
- Erpodium australiense
- Calymperes erosum
- Calymperes tenerum
- Octoblepharum albidum
- Note: The genera Desmatodon, Phascum, Pottia, and Tortula were heavily revised by Zander, and a number of names in the list below are no longer correct.[3][4]
- Acaulon eremicola
- A. granulosum
- A. integrifolium
- A. leucochaete
- A. mediterraneum
- A. triquetrum
- Aloina sullivaniana
- Barbula calycina
- B. crinita
- B. ehrenbergii
- B. hornschuchiana
- B. indica
- B. luteola
- B. subcalycina
- Bryoerythrophyllum binnsii
- Calymperastrum latifolium
- Crossidium davidai
- C. geheebii
- D. recurvatus
- Didymodon luehmannii
- D. subtorquatus
- D. torquatus
- Gymnostomiella vernicosa
- Gymnostomum calcareum
- Hyophila involuta
- H. rosea
- Leptodontium paradoxum
- Phasconica balansae
- Phascopsis rubicunda
- Phascum laticostum
- P. longipilum
- P. robustum var. crassinervium
- Pottia brevicaulis
- P. davalliana
- P. drummondii
- P. scabrifolia
- P. starckeana
- Pterygoneurum kemsleyi
- P. ovatum
- Splachnobryum wiemansii
- Stonea oleaginosa
- Tetrapterum cylindricum
- Tortella cirrhata
- T. flavovirens
- Tortula antarctica
- T. atrovirens (=Desmatodon convolutus)
- T. muralis
- T. pagorum
- T. papillosa
- T. rubella
- Trichostomopsis australasiae
- Trichostomum brachydontium
- Triquetrella papillata
- Uleobryum peruvianum
- Weissia brachycarpa
- W. controversa
- W. rutilans
- Amphidium cyathicarpum
Ephemeraceae
- Ephemerum cristatum
- E. rehmannii
Subclass Bryidae
- Tayloria octoblepharum
- Macromitrium archeri
- Zygodon intermedius
- Z. menziesii
- Z. minutus
- Hedwigia ciliata
- H. integrifolia
Rhacocarpaceae
- Rhacocarpus purpurascens
- R. webbianus
- Brachymenium coarctatum
- B. exile
- B. indicum
- B. preissianum
- Bryum albo-limbatum
- B. apiculatum
- B. argenteum
- B. australe
- B. billardieri var. billardieri
- B. billardieri var. platyloma
- B. caespiticium
- B. campylothecium
- B. capillare
- B. cellulare
- B. cheelii
- B. chrysoneuron
- B. creberrimum
- B. dichotomum
- B. inaequale
- B. lanatum
- B. pachytheca
- B. torquescens
- Pleurophascum occidentale
- Orthodontium inflatum
- O. lineare
- O. pallens
- Pohlia wahlenbergii
- Schizymenium bryoides
- Bartramia afro-stricta
- B. compacta
- B. hampei
- B. papillata
- B. pseudostricta
- B. strictifolia
- Breutelia affinis
- Philonotis australiensis (= Bartramidula pusilla; The genus Bartramidula has been synonymized with Philonotis.[5])
- P. mollis
- P. tenuis
Racopilaceae
- Racopilum convolutaceum
- Sauloma tenella
Pterigynandraceae
- Trachyphyllum inflexus
- Thuidium sparsum var. hastatum
Campyliaceae
- Drepanocladus aduncus
- D. sendtneri
- Fabronia australis
- F. hampeana
- Ischyrodon lepturus
- Hypnum cupressiforme var. mossmanianum
- Taxiphyllum minutirameum
- Vesicularia montagnei
- V. rivalis
- Sematophyllum amoenum
- S. caespitosum
- S. contiguum
- S. homomallum
References
- ^ a b c d Stoneburner, Ann; Wyatt, Robert; Catcheside, David & Stone, Ilma (1993). "Census of the Mosses of Western Australia". The Bryologist. 96 (1). The Bryologist, Vol. 96, No. 1: 86–101. doi:10.2307/3243324. JSTOR 3243324.
- ^ Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- ^ Zander, R. H. (1989). "Seven new genera in Pottiaceae (Musci) and a lectotype for Syntrichia". Phytologia. 65: 424–436.
- ^ Zander, R. H. (1993). "Genera of the Pottiaceae: Mosses of harsh environments". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 32: 1–378.
- ^ Griffin III, Dana & William R. Buck. 1989. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Studies on the Bartramiaceae. The Bryologist 92 (3): 368-380. [1]