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Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.

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Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook. in Cunningham, Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 366, t. 31, 32 (1837)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. 2000: New Zealand ferns and allied plants. Edition 2. David Bateman, Auckland.
Names_Fungi record source Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook. 1837

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Hook.
R.Br. ex Hook.
Cunningham, A. 1837: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Companion to the Botanical Magazine 2: 222–233, 327–336, 358–378.
1837
366, t. 31, 32
Loxoma
conserved
ICN
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma cunninghamii R.Br. ex Hook.
genus
Loxsoma
From the Greek loxos (oblique), and soma (belt), a reference to the oblique or slanting annulus on the sporangium. On one of the type sheets at K (photo WELT E473/14) there is a label in Cunningham’s hand giving the derivation as “Loxsoma λοξοσ obliquus, λωμα [in error for σωμα] instita, a belt”.

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Loxsomataceae
Loxsoma

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.

Sori in sinuses of pinnules; indusium urceolate, truncate at mouth; receptacle hairy, exserted at maturity; sporangia shortly stalked; annulus oblique, without stomium. Rhizomatous, pinnately compound fronds, veins free. Genus of a single sp. endemic to N.Z. Sori comparable to those of ; vegetative characters to those of .

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Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Alfarhan, A.H.; Sivadasan, M.; Thomas, J. (2009)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Brownsey, P.J. (1975)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Earp, C. (2016)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Kramer, K.U. (1990)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Kramer, K.U.; Green, P.S. (1990)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsomataceae C.Presl
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.
Loxsoma R.Br. ex A.Cunn.
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Loxsoma R.Br. ex Hook.

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Etymology
From the Greek loxos (oblique), and soma (belt), a reference to the oblique or slanting annulus on the sporangium. On one of the type sheets at K (photo WELT E473/14) there is a label in Cunningham’s hand giving the derivation as “Loxsoma λοξοσ obliquus, λωμα [in error for σωμα] instita, a belt”.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 July 2016
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