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Mosses of Western Australia

Western Australia has relatively few species of moss; the most recent census found just 192 taxa. This represents just 10% of Australia's total moss flora, even though Western Australia accounts for about one third of the Australia by area. This relatively low diversity has been attributed to the lack of rainforest in the state.[1]

By far the majority of the state's moss species occur in the Southwest Botanical Province, with over 80% of all species, genera and families occurring there. This includes four species that are apparently endemic to the province.[1]

About 70% of Western Australia's moss taxa occur also in South Australia, and a similar proportion occur also in New South Wales. Only about 50% occur also in Queensland. About half are restricted to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and a further 10% occur also only in South America.[1]

List of mosses of Western Australia edit

This is a list of mosses of Western Australia,[1] with classification updated.[2]

Subclass Sphagnidae edit

Sphagnaceae edit

Subclass Funariidae edit

Encalyptaceae edit

Funariaceae edit

Gigaspermaceae edit

Subclass Dicranidae edit

Grimmiaceae edit

Ptychomitriaceae edit

Archidiaceae edit

Fissidentaceae edit

Ditrichaceae edit

Bruchiaceae edit

Dicranaceae edit

Leucobryaceae edit

Erpodiaceae edit

Calymperaceae edit

Pottiaceae edit

Note: The genera Desmatodon, Phascum, Pottia, and Tortula were heavily revised by Zander, and a number of names in the list below are no longer correct.[3][4]

Rhabdoweisiaceae edit

Ephemeraceae edit

Subclass Bryidae edit

Splachnaceae edit

Orthotrichaceae edit

Hedwigiaceae edit

Rhacocarpaceae edit

Bryaceae edit

Orthodontiaceae edit

Mniaceae edit

Bartramiaceae edit

Racopilaceae edit

Mitteniaceae edit

Pilotrichaceae edit

Pterigynandraceae edit

Thuidiaceae edit

Campyliaceae edit

Fabroniaceae edit

Hypnaceae edit

Sematophyllaceae edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Stoneburner, Ann; Wyatt, Robert; Catcheside, David & Stone, Ilma (1993). "Census of the Mosses of Western Australia". The Bryologist. 96 (1). The Bryologist, Vol. 96, No. 1: 86–101. doi:10.2307/3243324. JSTOR 3243324.
  2. ^ Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
  3. ^ Zander, R. H. (1989). "Seven new genera in Pottiaceae (Musci) and a lectotype for Syntrichia". Phytologia. 65: 424–436.
  4. ^ Zander, R. H. (1993). "Genera of the Pottiaceae: Mosses of harsh environments". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 32: 1–378.
  5. ^ Griffin III, Dana & William R. Buck. 1989. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Studies on the Bartramiaceae. The Bryologist 92 (3): 368-380. [1]
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