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| Cyathophorum bulbosum |
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| there are nine six-year old dead Dicksonia stumps in the Wallace Garden |
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| Ptychomnium aciculare |
Yesterday I was passing the Wallace Garden Tree Ferns at NBGW and couldn't resist checking on the two antipodean mosses that I managed identify last year (
Dicranoloma mensiesii and
Ptychomnium aciculare). There was an another unfamiliar and quite conspicuous species visible at the base of one of the trunks, which I'd not seen previously and this morning I've managed to locate images and a description on the excellent
Australian Mosses Online that show it to be the rather distinctive
Cyathophorum bulbosum (Hypopterygiaceae). As mentioned in a previous post these dead
Dickinsonia stumps are reported to have been imported from New Zealand about six years ago. There is just the one species of
Cyathophorum in Australia, and it seems in New Zealand, so the id should be good. These tree ferns keep producing new species and there's a possibility that some of the other samples of odd looking things I collected yesterday might eventually prove to be of NZ origin too.
...a few microscope images of Cyathophorum bulbosum
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