Glyphothecium sciuroides (Hook.) Hampe

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Description

Plants 1–10 cm long, bright green or olive-green above, yellow to golden below. Stems orange-brown; paraphyllia abundant, foliose, lanceolate. Leaves crowded, ovate, 1.8–2.3 mm long, concave, plicate at the base, long-acuminate; margin serrulate to serrate at the apex, entire below, widely recurved at the base; costa double, very short. Laminal cells 40–48 µm long; apical cells shorter; alar cells quadrate to rectangular, thick-walled and pitted, forming a conspicuous rectangular patch along the leaf margin.

Seta 4–6 mm long, red-brown. Operculum conico-rostrate, slightly oblique. Peristome: exostome pale yellow, narrowly triangular, outer side lacking transparent median furrows, densely horizontally striate in the basal 33–50%; tips smooth to sparsely papillose. Spores 12.7–15.0 µm diameter.

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Diagnostic Features

Diagnostic characters include the dense, overlapping leaves and the distinctive alar region that ascends the leaf margin as a conspicious band.

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Chromosome Numbers

n = 7, fide Ramsay (1974, p. 321).

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Biostatus

Native.

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Habitat and Distribution

Occurs in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania, mainly in rainforest at altitudes of 150–1300 m, primarily epiphytic on Nothofagus cunninghamii, occasionally on Eucalyptus regnans, Atherosperma moschatum and Acacia spp. Also in Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Malesia, New Zealand and Chile.

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Nomenclature And Typification

Leskea sciuroides Hook., Musci Exot. 2: 175 (1819); Neckera glyphotheca Müll.Hal., Syn. Musc. Frond. 2: 669 (1851), nom. illeg. incl. spec. prior.; Cladomnion sciuroides (Hook.) Wilson, in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Nov.-Zel. 2: 100 (1854); Glyphothecium sciuroides (Hook.) Hampe, Linnaea 30: 637 (1860). 
Type: “Van Diemen’s Land” [Tas.], D.R.Brown s.n.; holo: BM.

Taxonomic synonyms

Glyphothecium muellerianum Hampe, Linnaea 30: 637 (1860); Cladomnion muellerianum (Hampe) A.Jaeger, Ber. Thätigk. St. Gallischen Naturwiss. Ges. 1875–76: 226 (1877) [Ad. 2: 130]; Garovaglia muelleriana (Hampe) Mitt., Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 19: 81 (1882), nom. nud. (in synon.). Type: Tarwin River, Vic., Apr. 1854, F.Mueller; holo: BM.

Cladomnion tasmanicum Müll.Hal. ex M.Fleisch., Hedwigia 36: 109 (1897).
Type: Mount Wellington, Tas., coll. unknown; holo: FH n.v., fide J.Enroth, Acta Bot. Fenn. 143: 39 (1991).

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Representative Herbarium Specimens

N.S.W.: track to Wrights Lookout, New England National Park, 72 km E of Armidale, H.Streimann 47885 (CANB).

A.C.T.: Cascade Trail, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, 25 km SW of Canberra, H.Streimann 5228 (CANB).

Vic.: Cumberland Scenic Reserve, Yarra Ranges National Park, N.Klazenga 5865 (MEL); Whitehouse Ck, Yarra Ranges National Park, A.McLean 16 (MEL).

Tas.: Sandspit River, 8.5 km WNW of Cape Bernier, A.Moscal 16837 (HO).

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Illustrations

J.Enroth, Acta Bot. Fenn. 143: 37, fig. 1c–f (1991); D.Meagher & B.Fuhrer, A Field Guide to the Mosses and Allied Plants of Southern Australia 59 (2003).

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Bibliography

Ramsay, H.P. (1974). Cytological studies of Australian mosses. Australian Journal of Botany 22: 293-348.

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Source

Milne, J. & Klazenga, N. (2012). Australian Mosses Online 31. Ptychomniaceae. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Version 24 May 2012. http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/Mosses_online/31_Ptychomniaceae.html

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Last updated: Unknown; Feb 29, 2024 12:43 Status: Partial

Author - Josephine Milne & Niels Klazenga

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Cite this profile as: Josephine Milne & Niels Klazenga (2024) Glyphothecium sciuroides. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/boa/profile/Glyphothecium%20sciuroides [Date Accessed: 06 April 2025]