Published January 10, 2025 | Version v1
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Schistidium antarctici L. I. Savicz & Smirnova

  • 1. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNComahue), San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina;
  • 2. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNComahue), Quintral, Río Negro, Argentina and
  • 3. Laboratorio de Ecofisiología y Ecotoxicología, Instituto Antártico Argentino, Campus Miguelete, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Description

* Schistidium antarctici (Cardot) L.I. Savicz & Smirnova [Grimmiaceae]

Description and iconography

Ochyra et al. (2008).

Distribution and habitat

Endemic to Antarctica, S. antarctici is associated with rocky sites, both dry and wet and exposed or protected (Ochyra et al. 2008). Representatives of this species were found growing on soil in exposed sites in the study area, located only in the coastal region of the island.

Comments

Sterile plants of this species are distinguished by having closely overlapping leaves in three to four rows, the costa is semi-terete and tristratose below, the leaf margin is bistratose and the leaves lack a hyaline basal margin (Ochyra et al. 2008).

* Schistidium antarctici (Cardot) L.I. Savicz & Smirnova [Grimmiaceae]

Examined material: Antarctica, Marambio Island, Streamlet La Tradición (64° 13 45.04 ′′ S; 56°38 58.84 ′′ W; 7 m. a.s.l.), on rock, 19.1.2022, A. C. Cottet (BCRU 5705).

Notes

Published as part of Cottet, Agustina Celeste, Messuti, María Inés, Ansaldo, Martín & Dopchiz, Laura Patricia, 2025, Mosses (Bryophyta) of the north-western region of Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctica, pp. 31-38 in Antarctic Science (Cambridge, England) (Cambridge, England) 37 (1) on pages 35-38, DOI: 10.1017/S0954102024000464, http://zenodo.org/record/15816856

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
A, C
Material sample ID
BCRU 5705
Event date
2022-01-19
Verbatim event date
2022-01-19
Scientific name authorship
L. I. Savicz & Smirnova
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Order
Grimmiales
Family
Grimmiaceae
Genus
Schistidium
Species
antarctici
Taxon rank
species

References

  • OCHYRA, R., BEDNAREK-OCHYRA, H. & SMITH, R. I. 2008. Illustrated moss flora of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 704 pp.