Uncinia compacta
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Description
Plant laxly to densely cespitose or with short rhizome and stems densely tufted, erect;
Leaves shorter or longer than stems, flat, involute, convolute or conduplicate, sometimes (var. nervosa) plano-convex and then often canaliculate, long attenuate, scabrous on margins and nerves at least in upper half, 0.25-3 mm wide, the tip mostly rather acute, triquetrous, rarely flat or plano-convex and blunt (var. nervosa);
Distribution
Amsterdam I present, Antarctic: Kerguelen (Kerguelen present); Tristan da Cunha (Tristan da Cunha present), Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Tasmania (Tasmania present); Victoria (Victoria present), Crozet present, Gough present, Latimodjong Mts present, Luzon present, Marion present, Mindanao present, Mt Apo present, Mt Banahao present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Pulog present, N. Borneo present, New Zealand present
Australia (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania), New Zealand, Amsterdam I., Kerguelen, Crozet, Marion, Gough and Tristan da Cunha; in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon: Mt Pulog&Mt Banahao; Mindanao: Mt Apo), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), Celebes (Latimodjong Mts), New Guinea.
Notes
The second character in the key to the species differentiating U. compacta from U. riparia breaks partly down in some specimens from Victoria and New South Wales; these specimens have a sharply triquetrous and (interruptedly) scabrous stem.
Citation
Clarke 1883 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 395
Cheeseman 1906: Man. New Zeal. Fl.: 800
Kuk. 1909 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 65
Hamlin 1959 – In: Dom. Mus. Bull.: 39
Noot. 1979 – In: Blumea: 515
F.v.M. 1874 – In: Fragm.: 152
Lourteig 1968: Bull. Com. Nat. Fr. Rech. Antarct.: 25
Boott 1853 – In: Hook. f., Fl. Nov. Zel. 1: 286
Boott 1860 – In: Hook. f., Fl. Tasmania 2: 103
Cheeseman 1925: Man. New Zeal. Fl., ed. 2: 245
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 434
Clarke 1883 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 392
Kuk. 1909 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 64
Hamlin 1959 – In: Dom. Mus. Bull.: 43