Mosses of Western Australia

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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]

1 List of mosses of Western Australia
2 References

[edit] List of mosses of Western Australia

This is a list of mosses of Western Australia,^[1] with classification updated.^[2]

[edit] Subclass Sphagnidae

[edit] Sphagnaceae

Sphagnum molliculum

[edit] Subclass Funariidae

[edit] Encalyptaceae

Bryobartramia novae-valesiae

[edit] Funariaceae

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

[edit] Gigaspermaceae

Gigaspermum repens

[edit] Subclass Dicranidae

[edit] Grimmiaceae

Grimmia apocarpa
G. laevigata
G. pulvinata
G. trichophylla
Racomitrium crispulum

[edit] Ptychomitriaceae

Ptychomitrium australe

[edit] Archidiaceae

Archidium indicum
A. rehmanii
A. rothii

[edit] Fissidentaceae

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

[edit] Ditrichaceae

Ceratodon purpureus
Ditrichum difficile
Eccremidium arcuatum
E. exiguum
E. minutum
E. pulchellum
E. whiteleggei
Pleuridium acuminatum
P. ecklonii
P. nervosum

[edit] Bruchiaceae

Bruchia brevipes
Tremadoton acutus

[edit] Dicranaceae

Campylopus acuminatus
C. australis
C. bicolor
C. flindersii
C. incrassatus
C. introflexus
C. pyriformis
Dicranoloma billardieri
D. diaphanoneurum

[edit] Leucobryaceae

Leucobryum subchlorophyllosum

[edit] Erpodiaceae

Erpodium australiense

[edit] Calymperaceae

Calymperes erosum
Calymperes tenerum
Octoblepharum albidum

[edit] Pottiaceae

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

[edit] Rhabdoweisiaceae

Amphidium cyathicarpum

[edit] Ephemeraceae

Ephemerum cristatum
E. rehmannii

[edit] Subclass Bryidae

[edit] Splachnaceae

Tayloria octoblepharum

[edit] Orthotrichaceae

Macromitrium archeri
Zygodon intermedius
Z. menziesii
Z. minutus

[edit] Hedwigiaceae

Hedwigia ciliata
H. integrifolia

[edit] Rhacocarpaceae

Rhacocarpus purpurascens
R. webbianus

[edit] Bryaceae

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

[edit] Orthodontiaceae

Orthodontium inflatum
O. lineare
O. pallens

[edit] Mniaceae

Pohlia wahlenbergii
Schizymenium bryoides

[edit] Bartramiaceae

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

[edit] Racopilaceae

Racopilum convolutaceum

[edit] Mitteniaceae

Mittenia plumula

[edit] Pilotrichaceae

Sauloma tenella

[edit] Pterigynandraceae

Trachyphyllum inflexus

[edit] Thuidiaceae

Thuidium sparsum var. hastatum

[edit] Campyliaceae

Drepanocladus aduncus
D. sendtneri

[edit] Fabroniaceae

Fabronia australis
F. hampeana
Ischyrodon lepturus

[edit] Hypnaceae

Hypnum cupressiforme var. mossmanianum
Taxiphyllum minutirameum
Vesicularia montagnei
V. rivalis

[edit] Sematophyllaceae

Sematophyllum amoenum
S. caespitosum
S. contiguum
S. homomallum

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Stoneburner, Ann; Wyatt, Robert; Catcheside, David; and Stone, Ilma (1993). "Census of the Mosses of Western Australia". The Bryologist 96 (1): 86–101. doi:10.2307/3243324.
^ 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 History 32.
^ Griffin III, Dana & William R. Buck. 1989. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Studies on the Bartramiaceae. The Bryologist 92 (3): 368-380. [1]