Hylocomium splendens
Common name
Moss
Family
Hylocomiaceae
Flora category
Non-vascular – Native
Structural class
Mosses
Current conservation status
- Conservation status of New Zealand mosses, 2014 (PDF, 583.87 kB)
The conservation status of 109 New Zealand moss taxa was assessed using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS). Four taxa and one undescribed entity that were not included in previous assessments have been added to the list. The conservation status of only two taxa has changed in this assessment. A full list is presented, along with a statistical summary and brief notes on the changes. This list replaces all previous NZTCS lists for mosses. Authors: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Allan J. Fife, Jessica E. Beever, Patrick J. Brownsey and Rodney A. Hitchmough.
- Conservation status of New Zealand hornworts and liverworts, 2014 (PDF, 695.44 kB)
The conservation status of the New Zealand hornwort and liverwort flora is reassessed using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS). A full list is presented, along with a statistical summary and brief notes on the most important changes. This list replaces all previous NZTCS lists for New Zealand hornworts and liverworts which previously had been part of a generic bryophyte conservation status assessment that included mosses. Authors: Peter J. de Lange, David Glenny, John Braggins, Matt Renner, Matt von Konrat, John Engel, Catherine Reeb and Jeremy Rolfe.
Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
2009 | Sparse | Qualifiers: DP
Distribution
Indigenous. Worldwide (Northern Hemisphere certainly), New Zealand, North Island, main axial ranges (Raukumara, Kaweka, Ruahine and Tararua Ranges)
Detailed description
Robust matted, glossy yellow-brown or yellow-green moss (older stems and foliage distinctly darker coloured). Stems c.120 mm long, procumbent, stout, flexuose, younger parts dark red, clothed with branched paraphyllia, sometimes divided, regularly and densely bipinnate (or with branches simple and others pinnate); branches complanate, short, up to 10 mm long, slender, curved, terete and pointed. Stem leaves 1.75-2.00 mm long, erect and appressed both dry and moist, from a wide insertion; lamina broadly ovate-oblong, apiculate, with a usually short blunt point, slightly plicate below, concave; margins slightly recurved below, finely denticulate in the upper half; nerve double, sometimes reaching mid-leaf. Cells 40-50 microns long and 6 -8 x 1, narrowly linear, slightly sinuose, achlorophyllous, smooth; those at the base dark orange, shorter, wider, incrassate, not forming differentiated angle cells. Branch-leaves distinctly smaller, imbricated, to 1 mm long, elliptic-oblong, concave, not or slightly apiculate. Sex organs and sporophyte unknown in New Zealand.
Fruiting
Fruits not known
Threats
Not Threatened. An apparently widespread but biologically sparse species of montane to alpine habitats in this country.
Substrate
Terricolous on damp ground or water staturated peat amongst grasses and shrubs in montane to alpine situations
Etymology
splendens: Splendid