THE OUTER COAST OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO, FROM CATHERINE POINT TO CAPE PILLAR, INCLUDING STATEN ISLAND, CAPE HORN, ETC

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-68
Author(s):  
A. G. Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Outer Coast ◽  
Cape Horn

scholarly journals Reinstatement of the Patagonian moss Ulota glabella Mitt. (Bryophyta, Orthotrichaceae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 726 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Ricardo Garilleti ◽  
Belén Albertos ◽  
Isabel Draper ◽  
Juan Antonio Calleja ◽  
Francisco Lara
Keyword(s):  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Cape Horn

In 1842, J.D. Hooker collected a number of mosses on Hermite Island (Cape Horn region). From one of those gatherings, Hooker 141, four species of Ulota have been described: U. luteola, U. fuegiana, U. glabella, and U. eremitensis. The first two species are widely accepted, whereas the identity of the latter two has been recently discussed, and the names are now synonymized under U. fuegiana, the more widely distributed species in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Our studies, based on recent collections of Orthotrichaceae from Patagonia, show that specimens different from those of U. fuegiana and agreeing with the protologues of both U. glabella and U. eremitensis are common in Patagonia. Comparisons with type material of all four names demonstrate that the type for U. glabella is in such bad condition that it cannot be used, and an epitype should be selected. In this paper, we comment on the whereabouts of the collection Hooker 141 and the species described from it, discuss the distinct identity of U. glabella and its relationship with U. eremitensis as well as its differentiation from other species, present a diagnostic description of U. glabella and, finally, select an epitype to fix the application of this name.

Nimisia deusta, the correct name for N. fuegiae, with additional notes on morphology, chemical composition, and distribution

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. FRYDAY
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
South America ◽  
Secondary Metabolite ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Lichen Substances ◽  
Cape Horn

Nimisia deusta, based on Parmelia enteromorpha var. deusta, is shown to be the correct name for the species currently known as N. fuegiae. Original material collected by J. D. Hooker in 1842, and collections made by Henry Imshaug between 1968 and 1971, have shown that the species is more widely distributed than previously reported, being known throughout the southern tip of South America (Argentina: Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Isla de los Estados; Chile: Cape Horn Islands; Falkland Islands), that it has a uniform secondary metabolite chemistry of fumarprotocetraric acid in the upper medulla (not lacking lichen substances as previously reported), and that it is not uniformly black but has a partly pale brown upper cortex.

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