Ambuchanania

Taxobox
name = "Ambuchanania"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Bryophyta
classis = Sphagnopsida
subclassis = Sphagnidae
ordo = Ambuchananiales
ordo_authority = Seppelt & H.A. Crum
familia = Ambuchananiaceae
familia_authority = Seppelt & H.A. Crum
genus = "Ambuchanania"
genus_authority = Seppelt & H.A. Crum, 1990
species = "A. leucobryoides"
binomial = "Ambuchanania leucobryoides"
binomial_authority =
synonyms = "Sphagnum leucobryoides"

"Ambuchanania leucobryoides" is the only species of genus "Ambuchanania". It is a "Sphagnum"-like moss endemic to Tasmania. Originally described as a species of "Sphagnum", it is now a separate genus on the basis of both unusual morphology and genetic differences.

References

* Shaw, A. Jonathan, 2000. "Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences" [http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&issn=0007-2745&volume=103&issue=02&page=0277&ct=1] , "The Bryologist" 103 (2): 277-306.
* Shaw, A. Jonathan, Cymon J. Cox & Sandra B. Boles, 2003. "Polarity of peatmoss ("Sphagnum") evolution: who says bryophytes have no roots?" [http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/90/12/1777?ck=nck] , "American Journal of Botany" 90: 1777-1787
* Yamaguchi, T., Seppelt R.D., Iwatsuki, Z. & Buchanan, A.M., 1990. "Sphagnum" (sect. "Buchanania") "leucobryoides" sect. et sp. nov. from Tasmania" [http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/ThreatenedFloraCD/Non%20Vascular%20Species/Ambuchanania%20leucobryoides.pdf] , "Journal of Bryology" 16: 45-54.