The bryophytes of the Mt Wellington Range, Tasmania

A census of the bryophyte flora of the Mt Wellington Range, Tasmania, is reported, the field work having been carried out between 1 May 1977 and 31 October 1980. The survey area was similar in extent to that used by the authors in an earlier survey of the vascular plants. A total of 164 mosses and 130 liverworts was found in the survey area, representing more than 60% of the known Tasmanian bryophyte flora, including several species not previously known to occur in Tasmania. The number of moss species was greatest at middle and lower altitudes whereas the number of liverwort species was greatest at middle and higher altitudes. Reports of liverwort species in this census are accompanied by references to works containing descriptions and drawings, wherever possible, of these species. Only a few species known from past information or collections to have occurred on Mt Wellington were missing in the current survey despite the devastating bushfire of 7 February 1967

The plants of the Trevallyn State Recreation Area, Tasmania

A census of species of all plant groups, excluding free-growing fungi and algae, of the Trevallyn State Recreation Area near Launceston, Tasmania, is presented. The list of 232 species of flowering plants includes 15 species that are either rare or considered to be vulnerable, or are unreserved or poorly represented in state reserves. Although gazetted as a state recreation area, the management policy for the reserve is consistent with the preservation of existing native vegetation

A little-known scientific club in Hobart, Tasmania - its early years

A history of the early years (1935-1939) of the Biological Club in Hobart, Tasmania, is presented, describing briefly the titles and content of some of the talks given in those formative years. The genesis of the Club is put into the broader context of the development of science in Tasmania during that period. The question of why women were not included in the membership in the Club at that time is explored

Check-list of the Tasmanian liverworts

A check-list of the Tasmanian liverworts is presented in an attempt to include all the species (282) that are presently believed to occur in Tasmania. The Lepidoziaceae is viewed as the family most in need of revision in southern Australia today

A preliminary census of the macro fungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania the Ascomycota

This work continues the process of documenting the macrofungi of Mt Wellington. Two earlier publications were concerned with the and non-gilled Basidiomycota, respectively, excluding the sequestrate species. The present work deals with the non-sequestrate Ascomycota of which 42 species were found on Mt Wellington

A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mount Wellington, Tasmania- the Agaricales

The macro fungi of Tasmania are part of a kingdom of living organisms that is poorly known in Australia; most species are unnamed and undescribed. The present work represents an initial attempt at identifying the rich mycobiota of Mount Wellington, one of Tasmania's best-known and most-studied regions for other plant groups. Attention is confined to the 'gilled' fungi, the order Agaricales. The agarics of Mount Wellington comprise a very large group, and in the 15 families recognised, 130 previously named and described species are differentiated and presented here. The true number of species is at least twice that many, as some large families have been inadequately studied in Australia. For example, in the family Entolomataceae, we believe there are over 50 distinct species in the genus Entoloma and at least four species in the genus Rhodocybe on Mount Wellington

A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania the non-gilled Basidiomycota

This work is a further contribution towards documenting the macrofungi ofMt Wellington. An earlier publication was confined to 130 named and described of 'agarics', or gilled fungi. The focus of the present paper is on the non-gilled Basidiomycota with the exception of the sequestrate which will be the subject of a separate A total of 65 non-gilled is included here. Further, the acquisition of recent information has added 11 species to the previous list of gilled fungi and enabled two of the names to be revised

Changes in the abundance of the vascular plants of the Mount Wellington Range, Tasmania, following a severe fire

A census of the vascular plants of the Mt. Wellington Range, Tasmania, is reported, the survey having been carried out in the two-year period between February 1973 and March 1975, i.e. six to eight years after the devasting bushfire of 7th February 1967. An earlier survey of Mt. Wellington by Martin published in 1940 provided the opportunity to examine whether the bushfire caused any extinction of plant species, or whether there were any important changes in relative species abundance. A total of 487 native vascular species were found in the survey zone, including 450 angiosperms, representing more than one-third of the known species of native flowering plants in Tasmania. Although certain plants, e.g. some species of Richea and some ferns, are making a slow recovery from the effects of the fire, no important changes in the flora have been observed in comparing the present survey with the earlier one. All species observed in the survey are presented in a detailed appendix, where the abundance of each species in each of eight vegetation zones is recorded. Current practice in the botanical naming of species is observed throughout

Macrolichens of Mount Wellington, Tasmania

A census of the fruticose, foliose and squamulose lichens, also referred to as "macrolichens", was carried out on Mount Wellington, Tasmania, between November 1980 and December 1985. A total of 95 taxa was found, including 32 taxa of Cladia, Cladina and Cladonia. This contrasts with the findings of a recent survey of macrolichens in Tasmanian rainforests, which reported only eight species from those genera. Mount Wellington had fewer species of Collema, Menegazzia, Pseudocyphellaria and Sphaerophorus. Thirty-seven species of macrolichens were common to both survey areas. Ramalea cochleata is reported from Tasmania for the first time. SEE ALSO: Wilson, Francis RM (1892) Tasmanian lichens - Part 1. Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . pp. 133-178. http://eprints.utas.edu.au/16016