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Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson

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Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson, Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part II, 399 (1847)
Entosthodon laxus (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.
Fife, A.J. 2019: Funariaceae. In: Smissen, R.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 45. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

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Hook.f. & Wilson
Hook.f. & Wilson
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.
1847
399
Gymnostomum (Physcomitrium) laxum
ICN
Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson
species
Gymnostomum laxum
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.
Lectotype: Kerguelen, Antarctic Expedition 1839–1843, J.D. Hooker 744 ("Wilson no. 257"), BM-Hooker! Isolectotypes: BM-Hooker!, NY-Mitten! (Designated by Fife 1987a.)

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Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Gymnostomum
laxum

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Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson
Gymnostomum laxum Hook.f. & Wilson
Fife, A.J. (2019)
Entosthodon laxus (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.

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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.
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.

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1 January 2000
30 October 2023
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