New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Frullania wairua, a new and seemingly rare liverwort species
from Northland, New Zealand*
M. J. von Konrat
Department of Botany
The Field Museum
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA
mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org
J. E. Braggins
John Braggins Consultants Limited
13 Athena Drive
Auckland 1310, New Zealand
Abstract The liverwort Frullania wairua
sp. nov. (Jubulaceae) from Northland, New Zealand, is described and
illustrated. The combined characteristics of the leaf,
stem-underleaves, cell-wall anatomy, and oil-bodies distinguish it from
all other New Zealand species of Frullania. A critical
comparison is also made between Frullania wairua and
morphologically allied subtropical species of botanical regions
elsewhere. This new species is remarkably interesting in comparison
with almost all other Frullania species in New Zealand because
of its apparent rarity. The conservation status of Frullania wairua
in the New Zealand threat category is determined as Nationally
Critical. Minor elements of the New Zealand threat classification
system that are difficult to apply to bryophytes are noted.
Keywords conservation; Frullania; F.
wairua; liverworts; Marchantiophyta; new species; New Zealand
flora; rarity; taxonomy
* Dedicated in memory of Tina Parsons, Elam School of Fine Arts, The
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
B05020; Received 13 May 2005; accepted 26 September 2005; Online
publication date 15 December 2005
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2005, Vol. 43: 885–893
0028–825X/05/4304–0885 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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