Ambuchanania

Ambuchanania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Sphagnopsida
Order:	Sphagnales
Family:	Ambuchananiaceae
Genus:	Ambuchanania Seppelt & H.A. Crum^[1]
Species:	A. leucobryoides
Binomial name
*Ambuchanania leucobryoides* (Yamaguchi, Seppelt & Iwatsuki)^[2] Seppelt & H. Crum^[1]
Synonyms
Sphagnum leucobryoides

Ambuchanania leucobryoides is the only species of genus Ambuchanania. It is a Sphagnum-like moss endemic to Tasmania. Originally described as a species of Sphagnum, it is now a separate genus on the basis of both unusual morphology and genetic differences.

References

^ ^a ^b Crum, H.; Seppelt, R.D. (1999). "Sphagnum leucobryoides reconsidered". Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 22: 29–31.
^ Yamaguchi, T.; Seppelt R.D.; Iwatsuki, Z.; & Buchanan, A.M. (1990). "Sphagnum (sect. Buchanania) leucobryoides sect. et sp. nov. from Tasmania" (pdf). Journal of Bryology 16: 45–54. http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/ThreatenedFloraCD/Non%20Vascular%20Species/Ambuchanania%20leucobryoides.pdf.

Johnson, K.A., Whinam, J., Buchanan, A.M. & Balmer, J. (2008) Ecological observations and new locations of a rare moss, Ambuchanania leucobryoides (Ambuchananiaceae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 142 (2): 79-84.
Shaw, A. Jonathan, 2000. Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences [1], The Bryologist 103 (2): 277-306.
Shaw, A. Jonathan, Cymon J. Cox & Sandra B. Boles (2003) Polarity of peatmoss (Sphagnum) evolution: who says bryophytes have no roots? [2], American Journal of Botany 90: 1777-1787.