Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bryophyta of Australia, Bryophyta of New Zealand, Aulacomnium Palustre, Mosses of Western Australia, Calymperastrum, Ceratodon Purpureus, Ambuchanania Leucobryoides, Archidium Elatum, Amblystegium Serpens, Dicranoweisia Brevipes. Excerpt: Ambuchanania leucobryoides Ambuchanania leucobryoides, formerly Sphagnum leucobryoides, is a species of plant in the Sphagnaceae family. It is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is threatened by habitat loss. Source A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Calymperastrum Calymperastrum latifolium is the sole species in the monotypic moss genus Calymperastrum. It is a poorly known moss, having been collected only three times. All three collections were from the trunks of Macrozamia, in the Southwest Botanic Province of Western Australia. It is presumed endemic to the region, making it the only moss genus known endemic to that state. Description This moss grows in a low turf, yellowish green from above but yellowish brown below. It has unbranching stems about six millimetres in length, with a reddish brown mat of hairs on their lower half. These support numerous narrow spathulate leaves from 2.0 to 3.1 millimetres long. Nothing is known of its sexual structures and sporophytes. Taxonomy This taxon was first collected from near Perth in the 1840s, and published as Calymperes latifolium in 1846 by Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe, in Volume II of Johann Georg Christian Lehmann 's Plantae Preissianae. In the 1980s, a careful examination showed it to be only superficially similar to Calymperes (Calymperaceae). It was held to belong to a different family, the Pottiaceae, but did not fit into any of that family's published genera. In 1985, therefore, Ilma Grace Stone published Calymperastrum and transferred C. latifolium into it. Since
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