Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

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Name scientific

Isoetes kirkii A.Braun, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 649 (1869)

Preferred name

Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

Taxonomy reference

Brownsey, P.J.; Given, D.R.; Lovis, J.D. 1985: A revised classification of New Zealand pteridophytes with a synonymic checklist of species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 23(3): 431–489.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

A.Braun

Authors

A.Braun

Publication place

Braun, A.C.H. 1869: Über eine neue in Neuseeland entdeckte Art der Gattung Isoetes. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 648–650.

Year published

1869

Publication page

649

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Isoetes kirkii

Etymology

Named in honour of Thomas Kirk (1828–1898), Chief Conservator of State Forests in New Zealand (1863–1898), author of The Forest Flora of New Zealand (1889) and The Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands (1899), and who first collected Isoetes in New Zealand.

Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2018: Isoetaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand — Ferns and Lycophytes. Fascicle 25. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Typification

Holotype: New Zealand, Waikato, 1869, T. Kirk s.n., com. Dr. F. v. Mueller, B 20 0107710b!

Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2018: Isoetaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand — Ferns and Lycophytes. Fascicle 25. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Lycopodiopsida

Order

Isoetales

Family

Isoetaceae

Genus

Isoetes

Species

kirkii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

quillwort

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

Description

Submerged, axis short, deeply 3-lobed; lvs up to 30, 5 cm. to 3 dm. long, filiform, pale green. Sporangia broadly oblong, c. 3 mm. long. Megaspores white, studded with minute, unequal tubercles; microspores very ∞, minute.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.