Tuatara: Volume 25, Issue 2, January 1982
Notes on rejected names of yellow-spored Anthoceros species which appear in the list published by Hamlin (1972)
Notes on rejected names of yellow-spored Anthoceros species which appear in the list published by Hamlin (1972).
Phaeoceros novazealandicus (Pears.) Prosk, was originally described as Aspiromitus novazealandica (Pearson, 1923). By courtesy of the University of California (Berkeley), two accession numbers, UC 213698 and 213699, of Aspiromitus novazealandica (both listed as type and collected at Taupo in 1904 by Setchell) were able to be examined. Proskauer (1951) has already stated that this species is a typical member of the yellow-spored section of Anthoceros. In my opinion the specimens with capsules correspond with A. laevis. However, a figure of a male plant with large solitary antheridia (Pearson, 1923) seem to belong to Megaceros leptohymenius, a species which often grows intermixed with A. laevis and superficially resembles it.
Anthoceros colensoi Mitt.
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