FloraOfNewZealand-Mosses-9-Fife-2014-Anomodonta ...

The Anomodontaceae are historically confounded with the hypnaceous families Thuidiaceae and Leskeaceae, but differentiated from them in modern Floras by having, among other features, a non-hypnaceous peristome, stolons, and a lack of paraphyllia. The best known genus, Anomodon, is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, and extends into tropical regions. The family is represented in New Zealand by a single genus and species, Haplohymenium pseudotriste which grows as an epiphyte on smooth-barked tree species, and is largely distributed on the North Island. Its delicacy and creeping, filiform habit differentiate this relatively rare species from all but a few N.Z. pleurocarps.

While the genus Anomodon has been historically recorded from N.Z. because of occurrence here of the Tasmanian A. tasmanicus, that species has been shown convincingly to belong to the Pottiaceae; it is treated elsewhere in this Flora as a Triquetrella.