Ambuchanania
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Ambuchanania leucobryoides is the only species of genus Ambuchanania. It is a Sphagnum-like moss endemic to Tasmania. Originally described as a species of Sphagnum, it is now a separate genus on the basis of both unusual morphology and genetic differences.

References

• Shaw, A. Jonathan, 2000. "Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences" [1], The Bryologist 103 (2): 277-306.
• Shaw, A. Jonathan, Cymon J. Cox & Sandra B. Boles, 2003. "Polarity of peatmoss (Sphagnum) evolution: who says bryophytes have no roots?" [2], American Journal of Botany 90: 1777-1787
• Yamaguchi, T., Seppelt R.D., Iwatsuki, Z. & Buchanan, A.M., 1990. "Sphagnum (sect. Buchanania) leucobryoides sect. et sp. nov. from Tasmania" [3], Journal of Bryology 16: 45-54.

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