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Studies in the Sphaerocarpales (Hepaticae) from Southern Africa Bothalia 30,1: 17-24(2000) Studies in the Sphaerocarpales (Hepaticae) from southern Africa. 2. The genus Sphaerocarpos and its only local species, S. stipitatus S.M. PEROLD* Keywords: Austrosphaerocarpos (subgenus), Hepaticae, Monocarpineae, Riellineae, southern Africa, Sphaerocarpaceae, Sphaerocarpales, Sphae- rocarpineae. Sphaerocarpos stipitatus ABSTRACT A taxonomic account of the genus Sphaerocarpos, subgenus Austrosphaerocarpos, and its only local species, S. stipi­ tatus Bisch. ex Lindenb., is presented here. These taxa are classified in the suborder Sphaerocarpineae of the order Sphaerocarpales, for which short notes and a key to all three constituent suborders, Monocarpineae, Riellineae and Sphaerocarpineae, are provided. INTRODUCTION This paper on Sphaerocarpos stipitatus, is the second in a series of three on the Sphaerocarpales in southern The genus Sphaerocarpos (Micheli) Boehmer was Africa. first recorded from southern Africa by Proskauer (1954). He received material from the algologist, Dr M.A. MATERIAL AND METHODS Pocock, who had collected it in the Eastern Cape, on the banks of pools in the Palmiet River, a tributary of the The same procedures as outlined in Perold (1999b) New Years River, seven miles from Grahamstown, on the were employed in the preparation of the material for Cradock Road. Miss Lilian Britten, a lecturer at Rhodes examination and photography by compound light micro­ University College, had originally discovered Sphaero­ scope and scanning electron microscope. carpos plants at this locality. A further collection from Clanwilliam, by Prof. E.A.C.L.E. Schelpe, was also Order Sphaerocarpales Cavers in New Phyto- recorded by Proskauer. logist 9: 81 (1910); Grolle: 55 (1983); Scott: 63 (1985). Amell (1963) did not report any new collections and the [excluding the American Geothallus Campbell and the only recent published South African record of the species Mesozoic fossil, Naiadita Brodie] is by Long (1993) from a 1969 collection, H.R. Toelken 1978 (BM. BOL) from Paardeneiland, Cape Town. Plants ephemeral, very diverse, terrestrial; sometimes minute, subspherical and pouch-like, occasionally with Seven of the collections that I studied, have not been branched ventral sprouts (Monocarpineae), or somewhat reported in the literature before. Despite repeated visits larger, with prostrate, median stems, up to 4 (or more) to the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape by various cell layers thick, pseudodichotomously branching, with collectors, myself included, such a small number of gath­ wings 2-ranked, lateral, incised, leafy, unistratose erings must surely reflect the rarity of these plants, (Sphaerocarpineae); otherwise aquatic, semifrondose, although Proskauer (1955) remarked that, ‘one does not stems ± erect, apical dominance seemingly persistent, normally find members of the group in the field without with broad, undulating wing on dorsal side, small leaf being familiar with them’. Their truncated life cycle, scales at both sides and ventrally (Riellineae). Air cham­ from spore to spore, can take less than 45 days (Schuster bers and air pores (the latter in the carpocephalum wall) 1992), and dramatically reduces the time period during present only in Monocarpineae. Cells all thin-walled, which they are likely to be found. large, delicate; smaller oil cells found only in Riellineae. Rhizoids all smooth. It is, nonetheless, hoped that the present, fully illus­ trated paper, will familiarise more botanists with these Asexual reproduction by gemmae, only in Riellineae. remarkable plants and that, in future, they will collect them, thus enabling us to establish the local distribution Monoicous in Monocarpineae and rarely in Riella range more completely. Previously, it was thought that 5. species, otherwise dioicous, mostly heterothallic, with male stipitatus was restricted to the southern hemisphere, i.e. plants much or somewhat smaller. Antheridia ovoid to glo­ Chile in South America (where the type specimen had bose, in Monocarpineae located inside air chambers, pedi­ been collected by Bertero in 1829) and South Africa. cel long, unisenate; in Sphaerocarpineae individually sur­ Recently, however, it was also collected as a presumed rounded by involucres, crowded together on dorsal surface adventive in Portugal (Sergio & Sim-Sim 1989), as well of stems; in Riellineae enclosed in pockets along margin of as at a remote, high altitude locality in East Nepal (Long undulating wing, pedicel short, uniseriate. Archegonia with 1993), where its accidental introduction is unlikely. 6 rows of neck cells, in Monocarpineae borne on archego- niophores, otherwise individually surrounded by large, * National Botanical Institute. Private Bag X 101, 0001 Pretoria flask-shaped or pyriform involucres, dorsally on. or along MS received: 1999-07-02 stems of female plants. Stalk variable in length, without rhi- 18 Bothalia 30,1 (2000) zoid furrow. Capsule globose, cleistocarpous, wall unis- gle in Monocarpineae and Riellineae, mostly remaining in tratose, cell walls delicate, in Monocarpineae only with tetrads in Sphaerocarpineae. Elaters absent. Nutritive cells small, nodular to elongated thickenings, in other suborders present in Sphaerocarpineae and Riellineae. Spore release thickenings absent. Seta very short, becoming necrotic. in all three suborders by dissolution or decay of capsule wall Spores medium-sized to very large, 40-140 pm diam., sin­ and surrounding tissue. Key to local suborders of Sphaerocarpales la Plants terrestrial; distribution confined to winter rainfall regions of southern Africa; highly diverse in appear­ ance— subspherical and pouch-like or dorsiventrally flattened with lateral, leaf-like lobes; cells uniform, all lacking oil bodies; spores single or in tetrads: 2a Thalli monoicous, very small, subspherical and pouch-like; outer protective layers with air chambers sur­ rounding carpocephalum, the wall in the latter interrupted by barrel air pores; spores single, hemispheri­ cal, ornamentation finely tuberculate..................................................................... suborder Monocarpineae sensu Carr 2b Plants dioicous, heterothallic, males very much smaller than females, stems dorsiventrally flattened, laterally divided into unistratose, leaf-like lobes, without air chambers and air pores; gametangia surrounded by small or large (depending on sex) flask-shaped involucres; spores in local species remaining in tetrads, ornamentation rid g ed .................................................................................................. suborder Sphaerocarpineae Cavers lb Plants aquatic; distribution in both winter and summer rainfall regions of southern Africa; uniform in appearance, consisting of erect stem, dorsally bearing undulate wing and small leaf scales at sides and ventrally; cells dimorphic, some with an oil body; spores single, ornamentation various................suborder Riellineae R M.Schust. Sphaerocarpineae Cavers. R.M.Schust.; 807 Sphaerocarpos (Micheli) Boehmer in C.G. Lud­ (1992). wig, Definitiones generum plantarum: 501 (1760); Haynes: 219 (1910); Prosk.: 153 (1954); S.W.Arnell: 8 Plants terrestrial, dorsiventrally flattened, bilateral, (1963); R.M.Schust.: 816 (1992). Type: S. michelii consisting of a stem (or axis), once or twice to repeated­ Bellardi. ly furcate, laterally invested with delicate, leaf-like lobes. Ventral scales absent, instead invested with Sphaerocarpos Micheli: 4, t. 3 (1729). ephemeral slime papillae. Cells thin-walled, lacking oil bodies. Rhizoids all smooth, hyaline. Sphaerocarpus Adanson: 15 (1763) [orth. var.]; Steph.: 655 (1899); MUll.Frib.: 310 (1951-1958). Asexual reproduction absent. Plants ephemeral, gregarious to scattered; stems once Dioicous, heterothallic, male gametophytes much or twice (or more frequently) furcately branching, dor­ smaller than female ones. Antheridia individually devel­ siventrally flattened, laterally invested with delicate, suc- oped inside small, unistratose, brownish purple, flask­ cubously inserted, leaf-like lobes; ventrally (and apical- like involucres, in acropetal sequence, crowded along ly) with scattered slime papillae; ventrally with smooth, stem dorsally. Archegonia also enclosed, almost always hyaline rhizoids. individually, in much larger, green, flask-like involu­ cres, wall double-layered only in single South African Dioicous, strongly heterothallic; gametangia individ­ species, S. stipitatus; in other species unistratose. Calyp- ually enveloped by flask-shaped involucres, small in tra delicate, unistratose around cleistocarpous capsule, male plants, but much larger in females, which are ses­ 3- or 4-stratose around short, necrotic seta and sub­ sile or stipitate, wall unistratose, only exceptionally bis- spherical foot, disintegrating when spores reach maturi­ tratose, eventually containing globose capsule and short ty, allowing their release, when flask wall also decays. seta with foot. Spores remaining in tetrads or separating Spores in permanent tetrads in South African species, at maturity, ornamentation reticulate or ridged. large, external face covered with ridges; in some extra- South African species separating at maturity, the spore Species in the genus fall into two, well-defined groups ornamentation areolate to lamellate. Nutritive cells pre­ that were recently segregated by Schuster (1992). sent, but elaters absent. Key to subgenera of Sphaerocarpos Sphaerocarpaceae (Dumort.) Heeg in Verhand- la Sporophytes delicate, sessile on stem or axis; wall of flasks lungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen
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