Group: Moss Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 9

Authors:

Sullivant, William Starling
Lesquereux, Charles Léo

In Authors:

Austin, Coe Finch

Published In: Musci Appalachiani: tickets of specimens of mosses collected mostly in the eastern part of North America 108b. 1870. (Musci Appalach.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: [United States] On decayed wood in a well, Illinois, E Hall. On shaded rocks moistened by spray, at Little Falls and Ogdensburg, New Jersey, Austin (1867).

Type Specimens

• LT: United States. Illinois: Menard Co., on decayed wood in a well, Athens, E. Hall, Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Appalachiani 108b

  • Annotation: as 'holotype'
  • Lectotype designated by:  Pursell, R. A. 1987. A taxonomic revision of Fissidens subgenus Octodiceras (Fissidentaceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 45: 648.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• subkingdom:  Bryobiotina Trevis.
• division:  Bryophyta Schimp.
• subdivision:  Bryophytina Engl.
• class:  Bryopsida Ritgen
• subclass:  Dicranidae Doweld
• order:  Dicranales M. Fleisch.
• family:  Fissidentaceae Schimp.
• genus:  *Conomitrium Mont.

Other names for this basionym:

!Fissidens hallianus (Sull. & Lesq.) Mitt.

Octodiceras hallianum (Sull. & Lesq.) A. Jaeger

Keywords: MOSS