FloraOfNewZealand-Mosses-33-Fife-2017-Saulomataceae
The Saulomataceae are a small southern hemisphere family centred on Sauloma, of which the type S. tenella occurs in New Zealand. Sauloma has traditionally been placed in the Hookeriaceae, but was recently segregated from that large family using predominantly molecular data. It is a small genus of fewer than five species occurring in Australasia and South America. In N.Z. S. tenella is widely distributed and forms very pale mats on rotten wood, rock, soil banks, and trees in damp situations. It is characterised by its white-green coloration, its mostly oblong and obtuse leaves with strongly reflexed apices, its costae double and very weak or lacking, and its smooth, linear-rhomboidal, and porose laminal cells. The plants bear axillary, multicellular fusiform gemmae. The capsules have strongly collenchymatous exothecial cells, furrowed and cross-striate exostome teeth, and an endostome with a high basal membrane, well-developed perforate segments, and lacking cilia. Two other genera, both monotypic and restricted to Chile, and assigned to the family by some authors, are discussed briefly. A previously recognised species, S. macrospora, is placed in synonymy.
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