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Hookeria crispula Hook.f. & Wilson

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Hookeria crispula Hook.f. & Wilson, London J. Bot. 3: 550 (1844)
Distichophyllum crispulum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.

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Hook.f. & Wilson
Hook.f. & Wilson
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. [Oct. 1844]
1844
550
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Hookeria crispula Hook.f. & Wilson
species
Hookeria crispula
The epithet crispulum is apt, describing the strongly crisped dry leaves in the typical variety.
Holotype: N.Z., Bay of Islands, “on clay earth at roots of trees”, Aug. 1841, J.D. Hooker s.n., (“Wilson 377”), BM-Wilson! The Wilson herbarium (at BM) contains several duplicates of the type of D. crispulum. All are attached to a single sheet, bearing drawings and a handwritten draft of the description that was published in Wilson (1854, p. 122); collectively this material is deemed to constitute the holotype.

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Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hookeriales
Hookeriaceae
Hookeria
crispula

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typification
Holotype: N.Z., Bay of Islands, “on clay earth at roots of trees”, Aug. 1841, J.D. Hooker s.n., (“Wilson 377”), BM-Wilson! The Wilson herbarium (at BM) contains several duplicates of the type of D. crispulum. All are attached to a single sheet, bearing drawings and a handwritten draft of the description that was published in Wilson (1854, p. 122); collectively this material is deemed to constitute the holotype.
Fife, A.J. 2017: Daltoniaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 34. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Etymology
The epithet crispulum is apt, describing the strongly crisped dry leaves in the typical variety.
Fife, A.J. 2017: Daltoniaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 34. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

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1 January 2000
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