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AMBUCHANANIACEAE
       
The Ambuchananiaceae  is a monotypic (with a single genus) moss family with the only representative, Ambuchanania leucobryoides, endemic to Tasmania. The moss is named after the original collector, Alex M. Buchanan. The Ambuchananiaceae differs from the Sphagnaceae in having elongate antheridia, location of chlorophyll-bearing cells in cross-section and ringed thickenings in leaf hyaline cells.

A. leucobryoides appears to be restricted to Southwest Tasmania. It has been collected from white quartzitic sand deposited by alluvial flow and also at the margins of buttongrass sedgeland.

The stems of A. leucobryoides are around 2cm long, bearing branches sparsely and irregularly.  

 
 
 
 
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