Dr Niels Klazenga

Bryologist/Post-doctoral Research Fellow

email: niels.klazenga@rbg.vic.gov.au
ph.: ++61 (0)3 9252 2369

Niels Klazenga is a bryophyte systematist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. His expertise is in taxonomy and systematics of mosses. His main research interest is the family Dicranaceae, especially the genus Dicranoloma. In the time he has been in Australia he has prepared a revision of the Australasian species of Dicranoloma, has produced an update to the Catalogue of Australian Mosses, and has provided or contributed to Flora of Australia treatments of several moss families. Niels is currently working on a revision and Flora of Australia treatment of the Dicranaceae (s.l.) and on a phylogenetic analysis of Dicranoloma and related genera, based on ITS and morphology.

Bryophyte Atlas project

Bryophyte tick lists for each Australian state or territory, an electronic data entry form, and a checklist of Australian bryophytes can be downloaded here

Research projects

• Revision and Flora of Australia treatment of Australian Dicranaceae.
• Phylogeny of Dicranoloma and related genera, based on ITS and morphology.
• Catalogue of Australian mosses.
• Systematic position of Pleurophascum.

Papers

Klazenga, N. (1996). Dicranoloma steenisii (Musci: Dicranaceae), a new species from Papua New Guinea. Blumea 41: 11–15.

Klazenga, N. (1999). A revision of the Malesian species of Dicranoloma (Dicranaceae, Musci). Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 87: 1–130.

Klazenga, N. (2003). A revision of the Australasian species of Dicranoloma (Bryophyta, Dicranaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 16: 427–471. 

Klazenga, N. (2004). Proposal to conserve the name Dicranoloma against Megalostylium (Dicranaceae, Bryophyta). Taxon 53: 196–197.

Klazenga, N. (2005). Generic concepts in Australian mosses. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 17–23.

Klazenga, N. (2006). Review of Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. Systematic Biology 55: 176–177.

Klazenga, N. (2006). Holomitrium trichopodum (Bryophyta, Dicranaceae), a Holomitrium with split peristome teeth from Australia and New Zealand. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 100, 293–303.

Klazenga, N. (2006). Proposal to conserve the name Dicranoloma nom. cons. (Dicranaceae, Bryophyta) against an additional name, Braunfelsia. Taxon 55: 1030–1040.

Jolley, H. & N. Klazenga (2007). A morphometric study of Breutelia pendula and B. elongata (Bryophyta, Bartramiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20: 82–91.

Books

Streimann, H. & N. Klazenga (2002). Catalogue of Australian Mosses. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series no. 17. Australian Biological Resources Study: Canberra.

Flora of Australia treatments

Klazenga, N. & J. Milne (2002). Lembophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 52A (submitted).

Milne, J. & N. Klazenga (2002). Buxbaumiaceae, Diphysciaceae, Entodontaceae, Neckeraceae, Ptychomniaceae and Ephemeropsis. Flora of Australia 52A (submitted).