Australian Moss Name Index (AusMoss)

Showing Ptychomnion aciculare
Ptychomniaceae M.Fleisch.
Ptychomnion aciculare (Brid.) Mitt. , legitimate, scientific
Mitten, W. (1869), Musci Austro-Americani, sive enumeratio Muscorum omnium Austro-Americanorum mihi hucusque cognitorum, eorum paecipue in terris Amazonicis Andinisque Ricardo Spruceo lectorum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 12: 536 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Hypnum aciculare Brid. legitimate
Catcheside, D.G. (1980), Mosses of South Australia: 298 [secondary reference]
Dalton, P.J., R.D. Seppelt & A.M. Buchanan (1991), An annotated checklist of Tasmanian mosses: 27 [secondary reference]
Milne, J.; Klazenga, N. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2012), 31. Ptychomniaceae: Ptychomnion. Australian Mosses Online <http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/Mosses_online>: - [secondary reference]
Klazenga, N. (2015), AusMoss: Catalogue of Australian mosses, v. 2015-11-16: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Hypnum nigrum Brid. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hypnum ptychocarpon Schwägr. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic, Tas
  • distribution: S.A., Qld, N.S.W., Vic., Tas., Lord Howe I.
  • remarks: A report from the Australian Capital Territory (Catcheside, 1980: 298) is an error (D.G.Catcheside, pers. comm.). Macquarie Island records are referable to P. densifolium (Seppelt, 2004: 238). Ptychomnion aciculare was excluded from Norfolk Island by Streimann (2002: 160).