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FIELDIANA

Botany

Published by Field Museum of Natural History

Volume 36, No. 11 August 27, 1975

Austral Hepaticae III

Stolonophora, A New Genus of Geocalycaceae1

JOHN J. ENGEL

DONALD RICHARDS ASSISTANT CURATOR OF BRYOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

and

R. M. SCHUSTER

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

There are three well-defined subfamilies within the Geocaly-

caceae, i.e., subf. Lophocoleoideae, subf. Geocalycoideae and subf.

Leptoscyphoideae (see Schuster and Engel, 1973). The genus

Stolonophora Engel & Schust., new genus, belongs to subf.

Lophocoleoideae, which is chfl^^e|Qf^^^^.pflssessing perianths

with three ± equally developed lobes of wnicn me^third is ventral

in position.

DEC la 1975

Stolonophora Engel &

Plantae dioicae, erectae, virides ver*!Mfttyifc<CW^M>3q^|ationes semper fere

intercalares, rami typi ventricalis atque lateralis, rami terminales rarissimi, typi

Frullaniae; stolones frequentes, prostrati vel descendentes. Cortex caulinus e cellulis

admodum incrassatis efformatus. Folia transverse vel subsuccube disposita, concava,

oblata vel rotundata vel ovata, apice et margine integris. Cellulae foliorum leviter vel

manifeste crassi-tunicatae, trigonis mediocribus vel magnis; cellulis dimorphis,

plerumque 2 (raro 3) guttis olei praeditis, paucis guttula destitutis. Amphigastria

manifesta, deminuta, 0. 15-0.55 x latitudine caulina, indivisa vel bifida. Gemmae

nullae. Androecia intercalaria vel terminalia ad axillas foliacias longas; antheridia

solitaria, pedicellus uniseriatus vel hie inde biseriatus. Gynoecia ad axillas foliaceas

1 Grateful acknowledgement is made to the National Science Foundation— grant

GV-26615 to Dr. Henry A. Imshaug, Michigan State University, which supported the

senior author's field work, and grant BMS-72-02149 AOl to Field Museum of Natural

History for support of the scanning electron microscope facility. The senior author

would also like to thank Dr. Rolf Singer for assistance with the Latin diagnosis and

Mr. Fred Huysmans for his patient and enthusiastic assistance with the scanning

electron microscope at Field Museum.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-23065

US ISSN 0015-0746

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longas; bracteae integrae, bracteolae admodum deminutae, bifidae vel indivisae.

Perianthia trigona, clavata vel ± campanulata, ore integro. Capsula pariete 3-4-

stratoso instructa. Sporae 14-17 /i; elateres 7-8(-9) /i lati, bispirales.

Typus.-Leioscyphus (?) abnormis Besch. & Mass. Bull. Mens.

Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 629. 1886.

Plants caespitose; erect, axes 0.8-10.5 cm. tall, leafy shoots 0.5-1.2 mm. wide;

green to yellow-brown to red-brown to brown.

Branches nearly exclusively ventral- and lateral-intercalary, terminal branching

very rare, of Frullania type, leafy branches erect; stolons present, prostrate or

descending, often branched, often originating near base of microphyllous or leafless

erect axis that soon becomes leafy.

Stems ± rigid or wiry, 8-11 cells in diameter, cortex in 1-2 rows of very thick-

walled cells the same size as or smaller than the medullary; medullary cells thin to

slightly thick walled. Rhizoids on leafy axes few or none, restricted to lower underleaf

bases; on stoloniform axes at bases of both leaves and underleaves.

Leaves transverse to subsuccubously oriented, insertion narrow, transverse to

distinctly succubous, leaves commonly subvertical, entire leaf weakly to moderately

concave or moderately concave in median portions with the peripheral portions

nearly flat; oblate to rotundate to ovate; apices undivided, entire; margins entire,

broadly rounded, dorsal margin rather long decurrent.

Leaf cells with walls slightly to distinctly thickened, trigones medium to large;

cuticle smooth or finely papillose. Cells dimorphic: a majority with 2(-3) oil-bodies

per cell, 10-20 per cent of cells without oil-bodies; oil-bodies colorless, faintly

granulate, subspherical to ovoid.

Underleaves reduced, ± appressed to moderately spreading, hard to discern, 0.15-

0.55 x the stem width; undivided or bifid and with segments cilialike; lamina margins

entire or with 1 tooth.

Gemmae absent.

Plants dioecious; androecia intercalary or (at first) terminal on main axis or long

leafy branches; bracts subequal to or somewhat smaller than leaves, ovate to

rotundate, free margin of saccate portion entire or with 1 slime papilla or with 1-2

teeth, bracts otherwise entire; antheridia solitary, stalk uniseriate throughout or with

isolated cells vertically septate.

Gynoecia on main axis or long intercalary branches; subfloral innovations absent

or from axil of bract of innermost series or bract or bracteole of second series,

innovations often repeatedly producing perianths. Bracts becoming progressively

larger toward the perianth; bracts of innermost series deeply concave in median basal

portion, rotundate to subrectangular to obovate; apices undivided, entire; margins

entire. Bracteoles of innermost series free from bracts; highly reduced, hardly

modified from underleaves; very short bifid or undivided; lamina margins entire or

with several slime papillae and 1 to several small teeth. Perianth trigonous, clavate to

± campanulate, somewhat or hardly laterally compressed, ventral lobe convex to

somewhat infolded; perianth expanding or ± contracted toward the mouth; the

mouth ± 3-lobed, entire.

Seta 7-9 cells in diameter, with 25-32 rows of outer cells surrounding an inner

core of cells smaller, subequal or slightly larger than outer row. Capsule wall of 3-4

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layers, outer layer of cells 2.2-3.7 X as thick as each of interior strata, outer layer

with red-brown thickenings on radial walls, the thickenings wide nodulelike to wide

spinelike, semiannular bands sparing or absent, exposed wall thickened; intermediate

and inner layers of cells subequal in thickness, intermediate layer(s) with thickenings

on radial walls, but often considerably tangentially dilated; inner layer of cells with

incomplete semiannular bands extending for varying lengths, bands occasionally

complete, nodulose and sharp spinose thickenings common. Spores 12-17 /i, light

brown, exine with short, close vermiculate ridges. Elaters 7-10 ju wide, bispiral to 2-3-

spiral.

One of the two species here placed into Stolonophora has been

previously assigned to Clasmatocolea (Grolle, 1960), and the other

species has been treated as a synonym of a Clasmatocolea taxon

(Grolle, 1972). The following ensemble of features will distinguish

Stolonophora from the genus Clasmatocolea: a) the presence of

stolons; b) the nearly exclusively intercalary branching (only a

single terminal, Frullania-type branch was observed); c) the erect

growth; d) the dimorphic leaf cells, with the majority possessing oil

bodies, but with 10-20 per cent of the cells lacking them (see fig. 5);

and e) the vertically oriented, subtransverse leaves.

Rather than possessing affinities with Clasmatocolea, it seems

more likely that Stolonophora is closer to the purely Austral

complex centering around Pachyglossa and Lophocolea boveana of

southern South America, and the L. austrigena-gunniana complex

of South America-New Zealand-Tasmania. The relationships of

Stolonophora to the New Zealand taxa Pachyglossa tenacifolia and

Lophocolea gunniana seem particularly pertinent. In both of the

latter taxa, as well as in Stolonophora perssonii, we find the leaf

cells are clearly dimorphic, with a varying percentage devoid of oil-

bodies, others bearing typically one or two, rarely three, finely

botryoidal oil-bodies of, basically, identical form. Although this

similarity may be fortuitous, it is linked with a) evolution of a stem

with a distinct, small-celled, thick-walled cortex; b) a marked

tendency for the leaves to become unlobed; c) an equally marked

tendency— very unusual in Lophocoleoideae— for the leaves to be

vertical and transversely oriented. Within the above complex of

taxa, we find clear analogies to, especially, Pachyglossa. In

Pachyglossa we also find brown-to-fuscous coloration in some taxa;

microphyllous stolons; growth away from the substrate (in some

taxa); and a combination of ventral and lateral-intercalary axillary

branching with isolated Frullania-type branching, (depending on

the species) rare or lacking. Stolonophora, however, is very distinct

from the Pachyglossa- Lophocolea boveana-austrigena-gunniana

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complex in the highly reduced and appressed underleaves, and the

basically bilateral and two-ranked organization of vegetative axes.

KEY TO THE SPECIES OF STOLONOPHORA

1. Leaf margins not to weakly decurved, leaves pale to dark brown to red brown, leaf

cells with walls moderately to distinctly thickened; axes 1.8-10.5 cm. tall; stems

185-335 n in diameter; underleaves 0.15-0.35(-0.45)X the stem width; perianth ±

included, for the most part sheathed by bracts; plants submerged in streams or

pools or on stream banks. Southern South America S. abnormis.

1. Leaf margins tightly and narrowly revolute, leaves green, not developing secondary

pigments, leaf cells with walls slightly thickened; axes 0.8-1.5 cm. tall; stems 150-

170 p in diameter; underleaves 0.40-0.55 x the stem width; perianth exserted, bracts

obliquely patent; plants on cliff walls subject to inundation. North and South

Island, New Zealand S. perssonii.

1. Stolonophora abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Engel & Schust.

comb. nov.

Leioscyphus (?) abnormis Besch. & Mass. Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn.

Paris 1: 629, 1886. Lophocolea abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Steph.

Sp. Hep. 3: 62. 1906. Clasmatocolea abnormis (Besch. & Mass.)

Grolle, Revue Bryol. Lichen. 29: 71. 1960. Type: Chile, Prov.

Magallanes, Isla Hoste, Hyades (FH!, G!)(c. per.).

Plants gregarious with other bryophytes or in dense pure tufts; axes 1.8-10.5 cm.

tall, the leafy shoots 0.5-1.1 mm. wide, pale to dark brown to yellow-brown,

occasionally tinged with red-brown, stems red-brown or very dark brown, rather stiff,

wiry.

Branches frequent, of lateral- and ventral-intercalary types, Frullania-type

branching very rare (only 1 branch seen), leafy branches erect; stolons frequent but

not uniformly present on all axes, pinkish tinted, often in an interwoven mass in

which soil particles may be trapped, often prostrate from median or basal portion of

leafy axis; stolons occasionally branched, with scaly leaves and underleaves which are

sometimes caducous.

Steins 185-335 /t in diameter, 8-11 cells in diameter, cortex in 1-2 rows of very

thick-walled cells the same size as or smaller than the medullary; the outer row with

walls thickest and often with small lumen; medullary cells thin to slightly thick

walled, with comers thickened similarly to small to medium trigones. Rhizoids absent

from leafy shoots, common on stolons, at base of leaves and underleaves or

occasionally stolons with a few regions of scattered rhizoids.

Leaves (fully developed) (0.7-)0.9-1.7 mm. wide, 0.7-1.3 mm. long, axes commonly

with regions of small leaves intercalary between fully developed leaves; the later

transverse to weakly succubously oriented, insertion narrow, transverse to distinctly

succubous, leaves commonly subvertical, erect to weakly spreading, approximate to

weakly imbricate, entire leaf weakly to moderately concave and with margins plane

or leaves weakly to moderately concave in median portion but with peripheral

portions nearly flat and with margins plane or slightly reflexed; leaves oblate to

rotundate to ovate; apex broadly rounded to truncate, occasionally retuse.

FlG. 1. Stolonophora abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Engel & Schust. 1, perianth-

bearing axis with basal stolons (VL - ventral lobe), x 16; 2, median leaf cells, x

450; 3, portion of leafy axis, X 11; 4-6, underleaves of main, leafy axis, X 90; 6-7,

leaves of main axis, x 23; 8, stem, cross-section through main, leafy axis, X 270.

Numbers 1, 4-6 from Engel 6092, Chile, Prov. Magallanes, Puerto Gallant; 2, 3, 7, 8

from type material.

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Leaf cells with walls moderately to distinctly thickened, trigones medium to

large, often confluent, the sides straight to bulging, occasionally concave; median leaf

cells (12-)17-44 ^ wide, (14-)26-53(-56) jn long, median basal cells distinctly thick

walled, 18-42(-48) /* wide, (34-)41-76(-82) /i long; cuticle smooth or finely papillose.

Underleaves distinct, reduced, of very thick-walled cells, 0.15-0.35(-0.45)x the

stem width, moderately spreading; bifid to varying degrees and with segments

cilialike, or undivided and then acuminate, underleaf segments or apex terminating in

a slime papilla; lamina margins entire or with 1 single-celled tooth.

Plants dioecious; <5 bracts somewhat smaller than leaves, obovate to rotundate,

moderately concave, margins plane, free margin of saccate portion often broadly

rounded, entire, with 1 slime papilla or with 1-2 sharp teeth terminating in a slime

papilla, bract otherwise entire; antheridial stalk uniseriate throughout or with

isolated cells vertically septate.

Gynoecia on main axis or long lateral- or ventral-intercalary branches; subfloral

innovations absent or from axil of bract of innermost series or bract or bracteole of

second series, innovations often repeatedly producing perianths. Bracts in 2-3 series;

FIG. 2. Stolonophora abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Engel & Schust. 1-2, bract and

bracteole of innermost series, x 23; 3, capsule wall, outer layer, x 450; 4, capsule

wall, cross-section, x 450; 5, capsule wall, inner layer, X 450; 6, antheridial stalk, X

450; 7, partially torn seta, cross-section, x 90. Numbers 1-5, 7 from Engel

6092, Chile, Prov. Magallanes, Puerto Gallant; 6 from Engel 5718, Chile, Prov.

Magallanes, Bahfa Tuesday.

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bracts of innermost series free or with dorsal margin fused for entire length with

perianth keel; deeply concave in median basal portion; rotundate to subrectangular

to obovate, basal portion often ± clasping perianth; apices broadly rounded to

subtruncate. Bracteoles of innermost series free from bracts, rarely inserted on basal

portion of perianth and then with 1 margin partially fused with perianth; bracteole

highly reduced, 0.2-1.2 mm. long, hardly modified from underleaves; very short bifid

or undivided and then with apices narrowly rounded or short to long apiculate, apex

or segments terminating in a slime papilla; lamina margins entire or with several

slime papillae and 1 to several small teeth terminating in a slime papilla. Perianth

trigonous, clavate to ± campanulate, somewhat laterally compressed, the sides

convex, the ventral lobe convex to (more commonly) somewhat infolded, occasionally

canaliculate; perianth expanding toward the mouth; the mouth wide or subcon-

stricted, lobes broadly rounded, inflexed or occasionally straight in median portion

and reflexed near the keels.

Seta 7-8 cells in diameter, with 25-28 rows of outer cells surrounding an inner

core of scattered cells slightly to distinctly smaller than outer row and with corners

thickened similarly to medium or large trigones. Capsule wall 32-48 /t thick, of 3-4

layers, outer layer of cells 2.2-3.6 x as thick as each of interior strata, outer layer 16-

26 /i thick, with red-brown thickenings on radial walls, the thickenings wide

nodulelike to wide spinelike and often feebly tangentially dilated, with a few to

several semiannular bands which are sometimes branched; inner layer of cells 7-8(-ll)

ft. thick, with light brown thickenings on radial and tangential walls, incomplete

semiannular bands extending for varying lengths, bands only occasionally complete,

nodulose and sharp spinose thickenings common. Spores 14-17 /i, light brown, exine

with short, stout vermiculate ridges. Elaters 7-8(-9) n wide, bispiral to both ends or 1

or both apical portions with thick nonspiral walls, elater walls light brown.

The senior author has studied the spores of this species with

the aid of a scanning electron microscope. Figures 3-4 reveal the

spore exine is covered with short, stout, vermiculate ridges which

are rather close to one another or often coalesce. It may be

observed from Figure 4 that the ridges possess spherical nano-

granules which are usually distinct and separate, with intervening

spaces, but occasionally are juxtaposed or fused.

Ecology-Phytogeography.—Stolonophora abnormis occurs in

Tierra del Fuego and the wet, cold Patagonian Channels north to

52° 17' S. The species occurs submerged in rather rapidly moving

streams and occasionally on stream banks in evergreen Nothofagus

forests or submerged in small pools in the Magellanian moorland. It

may also be subalpine or alpine. It is also known from near

Concepcion (ca. 36° 50' S in Prov. Concepcion) in the Valdivian

region. Arnell (1958) reports the species from Tristan da Cunha.

Specimens seen.-CHILE. PROV. CONCEPCION: Peumo,

Dusen 186 as Jamesoniella paludosa (S-PA). PROV. MAGAL-

LANES: Isla Pacheco, Skottsberg 141 as Jamesoniella grandiflora

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(S-PA); Isla Desolaci6n, Bahia Tuesday, at head of inner harbour,

Engel 5697, 5718 (MSC); Isla Desolation, Puerto Churruca, at head

of Brazo Lobo, Engel 5852, 5857 (MSC); Isla Desolation, Puerto

Angosto, ca. 200 m., Dusen 186 as L. abnormis (G), as Jamesoniella

FlG. 3. Stolonophora abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Engel & Schust. Scanning

electron photograph of spore, x 7,500; from Engel 6092.

paludosa (L, S-PA, UPS); NE side of Puerto Gallant, Engel 6065D,

6092 (MSC); Rio Azopardo, ca. 500 m., Dusen 112 (G, S-PA); W end

of Lago Fagnano, "alpinus," Halle 144, as Jamesoniella oenops

(UPS); Isla Londonderry, Exp. Ant Belg. 397 (G).

2. Stolonophora perssonii (Schust.) Engel & Schust. comb. nov.

Calyptrocolea perssonii Schust. Revue Bryol. Lichen. 34: 699. 1967.

Holotype: New Zealand, South Island, Fiordland Nat. Park, E

FIG. 4. Stolonophora abnormis (Besch. & Mass.) Engel & Schust. Scanning

electron photograph of spore, X 14,350; from Engel 6092. Details of exine showing

ridges and nanogranules.

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FIG. 5. Stolonophora perssonii (Schust.) Engel & Schust. 1, main axis, lateral

view, X 23; 2-3, abaxial (AB) and adaxial (AD) views of same main axis leaf, X 46;

4-6, underleaves of main, leafy axis, x 90; 7, dimorphic median leaf cells, with oil-

bodies in some cells while absent in others, X 400; 8, axis with stoloniform branching,

ventral view (LA = leafy axis base), x 9; 9, stem, cross-section through main leafy

axis, x 270. All from holotype.

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FlG. 6. Stolonophora perssonii (Schust.) Engel & Schust. 1, shoot apex, ventral

aspect, with barely emergent dehisced capsule, X 22; 2, shoot apex with perianth,

dorsal aspect, x 22; 3, shoot sector, dorsal aspect, with lateral-intercalary branch, x

31; 4, shoot sector, lateral aspect; note appressed underleaves, x 31; 5, female bract

and, within, bracteole, to one scale, x 22; 6, bracteole of Figure 5, x 375; 7, leaf, x

31; 8, capsule wall, outer layer, x 312; 9, capsule wall, inner layer, X 312; 10,

capsule wall, cross-section, X 500; 11, portion of plant showing highly ramified base;

arrows indicate points of removal of leafy shoot apices; note branches x, y, z, from all

three merophyte rows of the primary axis, x 44. Numbers 1-10 from Schuster 48872,

New Zealand, Mt. Egmont; 11 from holotype.

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entrance of Homer Tunnel, head of Hollyford Valley, 3000-3050

ft., Schuster 55596 (RMS!).1

Plants in nearly pure, rather dense tufts; axes 0.8-1.5 cm. tall, the leafy shoots

ca. 0.7-1.2 mm. wide, subequally leaved throughout, green to slightly olive green, with

the mature stem brownish.

Branches frequent, intertwined, of lateral- and ventral-intercalary types, the

ventral-intercalary more common, terminal branching absent, leafy branches erect;

stolons frequent, usually pinkish tinted, often descending or prostrate from base of

leafy axis; stolons often branched, with scaly, often hyaline leaves and underleaves

which are sometimes caducous.

Stems ca. 150-170 ju, in diameter, 9-11 cells in diameter, cortex in 1-2 rows of very

thick-walled cells smaller than the medullary; medullary cells thin walled, with

corners thickened similarly to small trigones. Rhizoids rather frequent, on leafy

shoots restricted to underleaf bases; on stoloniform axes at bases of leaves and

underleaves.

Leaves 0.6-0.85(-0.9) mm. wide, 0.6-0.7 mm. long, transverse to subsuccubously

oriented, insertion narrow, weakly to distinctly succubous, leaves subvertical,

moderately to rather strongly spreading, distant to weakly imbricate, moderately

concave in median portions, the peripheral portions nearly flat, but with margins

narrowly, often strikingly reflexed; leaves rotundate; apex broadly rounded to

truncate to weakly retuse.

Leaf cells with walls slightly thickened, trigones medium, occasionally confluent,

the sides concave to straight; median leaf cells 13-20 ju, wide, 22-29(-37) ju. long, median

basal cells uniformly and moderately thick walled, elongated, 13-20 ju wide, 22-29(-37)

H long; cuticle smooth. Cells dimorphic: a majority each with 2, extremely rarely 3

oil-bodies, a minority of 10-20 per cent without oil-bodies; oil-bodies colorless, faintly

granulate, almost smooth externally, subspherical to ovoid, ca. 3-5 x 5-8 ju or

spherical and 4-5 p.

Underleaves distinct, reduced, 0.40-0.55 X the stem width, appressed; with 1-2

often cilia like segments or undivided.

Plants dioecious; $ bracts hardly smaller than leaves, ovate to rotundate, deeply

concave, margins reflexed, entire; antheridial stalk uniseriate but with local biseriate

areas.

Gynoecia terminal on leading axes; subfloral innovations absent. Bracts in 3

series; bracts of innermost series rather stiffly obliquely patent, deeply concave to

cupulate, especially toward median base; rotundate, essentially identical to leaves in

size and shape; apices narrowly revolute to decurved, broadly rounded; margins

distally narrowly revolute to decurved. Bracteoles of innermost series free from

bracts; minute, at most 0.05-0.1 area of bracts; appressed. Perianth often rather

stipitate, clearly exserted, obovoid to ovoid, inflated-trigonous, the 2 lateral keels

locally weakly winged and ± sharp, the dorsal keel blunt to rounded; slightly

contracted to the shallowly trilobed mouth, lobes blunt to rounded, margins reflexed.

Seta 8-9 cells in diameter, with 31-32 rows of outer cells surrounding an inner

core of scattered cells subequal to or slightly larger than outer row and with corners

1 The acronym RMS indicates the private herbarium of R. M. Schuster.

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thickened similarly to medium trigones. Capsule spherical, wall 32-40 /* thick, of 4(-5)

layers, outer layer of cells 2.8-3.7 x as thick as each of interior strata, outer layer 17-

18 p. thick, with thickenings on radial walls, the thickenings wide nodulelike to wide

spinelike; inner layer of cells 5-6 /i thick, with weak nodular thickenings on radial

walls, thickenings rarely tangentially dilated, semiannular bands rare to sporadic,

usually incomplete. Spores 12-14 j^, light brown, exine rather thin and with low

vermiculate, close, irregular anastomosing ridges. Elaters 8-10 /x wide in median

portion, medially mostly 3-spiral, becoming bispiral distally, spirals very narrow.

Taxonomic remarks.— This species was treated by Grolle (1972,

p. 365) as a synomym of Clasmatocolea fiordlandiae (Hodgs.)

Grolle. Clasmatocolea fiordlandiae, type material of which has

been studied by the senior author, rightfully belongs to Clasmato-

colea and is not conspecific with Stolonophora perssonii. For notes

regarding generic differences between Stolonophora and Clasmato-

colea see p. 113.

Schuster (1967, p. 700) assigned this species to Calyptrocolea

(thus the Adelanthaceae) and placed it there because it is

exceedingly close in habit to Calyptrocolea gemmipara Schust.

However, he noted that the position of "C." perssonii in

"Calyptrocolea is subject to possible doubt" and noted that it

differed from C. gemmipara, in "a series of good vegetative

characters," i.e.: the dimorphic leaf cells; the thick-walled cortical

cells that are short-oblong rather than long-rectangular; the

occasional lateral-intercalary branches; and the distinct, if small

underleaves. The near-identity of the two taxa in size, stolons, leaf

form and orientation, plus the absence of terminal branching, is

truly astonishing. Study of the antheridial and perianth-bearing

plants we have seen clearly shows that the species rightfully

belongs in the Geocalycaceae.

The name "Calyptrocolea dimorpha" in Schuster (1966, p. 211)

is actually an herbarium name for C. perssonii.

It should be specifically mentioned that S. perssonii has

dimorphic leaf cells, i.e., some leaf cells possess oil-bodies while

others are totally oil-body free (see fig. 5). This situation is rather

exceptional in the Hepaticae and occurs in several unrelated taxa

(cf. Schuster, 1966).

Ecology -Phytogeography.— Stolonophora perssonii is known

only from limited materials. It is an alpine species and occurs on

cliff walls subject to inundation, adjacent to steep cascades and

small waterfalls at 3000-3050 ft. in Fiordland National Park, South

Island, New Zealand, and at similar sites at 5000-5400 ft. on Mt.

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Egmont, North Island, New Zealand. It may be associated with

Temnoma quadrifidum.

Specimen seen.-NEW ZEALAND. TARANAKI PROV.: Mt.

Egmont, east slope of mountain near Warwick Castle in alpine

summit zone, 5000-5400 ft., Schuster 48872 - c. <5 + sporo. (RMS).

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