Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson

Details

Name scientific

Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson, Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part II, 399 (1847)

Preferred name

Entosthodon laxus (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.

Taxonomy reference

Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f. & Wilson

Original authors

Hook.f. & Wilson

Publication place

Hooker, J.D.; Wilson, W. 1847: Musci. In: Hooker, J.D. The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part II. Botany of Fuegia, the Falklands, Kerguelen's Land, etc. Reeve, Brothers, London. 395–423.

Year published

1847

Publication page

399

Orthography

Gymnostomum (Physcomitrium) laxum

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Gymnostomum laxum

Etymology

The epithet laxus roughly translates as flaccid or loose and presumably is derived from Hooker and Wilson’s descriptive phrase (in the protologue) “foliis erect-patentibus laxe imbricatis elliptico-lanceolatis…” The description of the loosely imbricate leaves is probably drawn in comparison to other taxa placed in the (then) larger genus Gymnostomum.

Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Typification

Lectotype: Kerguelen, Antarctic Expedition 1839–1843, J.D. Hooker 744 ("Wilson no. 257"), BM-Hooker! Isolectotypes: BM-Hooker!, NY-Mitten! (Designated by Fife 1987a.)

Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Bryophyta

Class

Bryopsida

Order

Pottiales

Family

Pottiaceae

Genus

Gymnostomum

Species

laxum

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson

Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson

Fife, A.J. (2019)

Entosthodon laxus (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.

Notes

Note type

typification

Note text

Lectotype: Kerguelen, Antarctic Expedition 1839–1843, J.D. Hooker 744 ("Wilson no. 257"), BM-Hooker! Isolectotypes: BM-Hooker!, NY-Mitten! (Designated by Fife 1987a.)

Note reference

Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Note type

Etymology

Note text

Note reference

Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Metadata

Record id

790f6034-d0c7-41bf-81c5-13e0a7d8402e

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

4 April 2019

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