Temnoma palmatum var. cuneatum R.M.Schust.
Temnoma palmatum var. cuneatum R.M.Schust., Candollea 21: 347. f. 47. 1967 (1966).
Holotype: New Zealand, South Is., ca. 1.5–2 mi. S of Wilmot Pass, between Lake Manapouri and Doubtful Sound, N of Spey River, ca. 1500 ft., Schuster 52661 (herb. Schuster).
Leaves usually 0.5–0.55 quadrifid; lobes slenderly lanceolate, usually 5–9 cells broad at base (some lobes of leaves of ♀ plants to 10–12 cells broad), the lobes normally edentate (♂ plants), or on ♀ plants with at most 1(2) non-recurved teeth near the base; lobes gradually tapered, with apices short-acuminate, formed by usually 3–5 superposed, elongated cells (3–5:1); disc 7–9 cells high, appearing as high as the lobes are long, with 0–1(2) spinous teeth on each side. Cells with surface conspicuously papillose. Oil-bodies 7–10(11) per cell, rarely and sporadically 5–6 per cell, 4.5–6 × 6–7.5 µm.
♀ Bracts cuneiform to oblong-cuneiform, 0.2–0.35 quadrilobed, the lobes each with usually 2–3 pairs of small, spinose uniseriate teeth mostly 2–4 cells long; disc high and very narrow. Perianth long, not or obscurely stipitate, prismatic, sharply trigonous almost throughout, somewhat contracted to the mouth, which is conspicuously and densely long-ciliate (cilia up to 350–410 µm long, formed of up to 5–6 superposed cells).
Distribution and Ecology : Known from a limited suite of specimens in New Zealand. In the South Island occurring in Southland over a wet, shaded rock, in a site on a mountain slope (300 m) where inundation could not occur. In the North Island occurring on Mt. Taranaki at 1650–1675 m on cliff faces and rocks in an herbfield in the alpine zone (Schuster, 1967a).
