Classification
Class
Bryatae
Family
Calymperaceae Kindb.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Syrrhopodon Schwägr., Sp. Musc. Frond. Suppl. 2(1), 110 (1824)
Type Taxon:
Syrrhopodon gardneri (Hook.) Schwägr.
Etymology:
According to Reese & Stone (1995) the generic name is "from the Greek syrrepo (to close the eye) and donti (tooth), in reference to the narrow, connivent, horizontal peristome teeth of some species that ‘close’ the mouth of the capsule when dry".
 Taxonomy

Species of Syrrhopodon, in contrast to Calymperes, usually lack teniolae in the shoulder region. The upper margin of the leaf is mostly thickened, often conspicuously toothed, and bordered by either elongate cells (as in the N.Z. species) or by thick-walled and short cells. If fruit is present the calyptra is cucullate and deciduous; a single peristome may be present or absent. Because of the high degree of variability in this genus, no detailed description is given here.

Reese & Stone (1995) considered Syrrhopodon to include approximately 80–90 species and treated 19 species from Australia. Reese et al. (1986) treated 25 species from the Huon Peninsula of P.N.G. In N.Z. only a single species occurs, in coastal situations in the north.

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Syrrhopodon Schwägr.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Fife, A.J. 2014: Calymperaceae. In: Heenan, P.B.; Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand — Mosses. Fascicle 12. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Goffinet, B.; Buck, W.R.; Shaw, A.J. 2009: Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta. In: Goffinet, B.; Shaw, A.J. (ed.) Bryophyte Biology. Edition 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 55–138.
Reese, W.D.; Koponen, T.; Norris, D.H. 1986: Bryophyte flora of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. XIX. Calymperes, Syrrhopodon, and Mittthyridium (Calymperaceae, Musci). Acta Botanica Fennica 133: 151–202.
Reese, W.D.; Stone, I.G. 1995: The Calymperaceae of Australia. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 78: 1–40.
Schwägrichen, C.F. 1823–1824: Species Muscorum Frondosorum, Supplementum Secundum. Vol. 1. Barth, Leipzig.