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Bryophytes of Mordovia State Nature Reserve (European Russia)
The present study compiles the results of bryophyte species inventories made at the Mordovia State Nature Reserve from 2014 till 2016. The reserve is located near southern limit of deciduous-coniferous forest subzone. In total 96% of the reserve is covered by forests, where about half are pine forests. The annotated bryophyte checklist includes 142 moss species and 23 liverwort species. The data on collecting site characteristics, habitats, substrates, bryophyte species frequency, and sporophyte presence are provided. Presented treatment is a key contribution to the bryophyte flora of Mordovia and important for the knowledge on bryophyte distribution of this forested area within strongly anthropogenically disturbed European Russian landscape.
New national and regional bryophyte records, 63
Erkul, Karaman ( Aksaray, Yazar )Bucklandiella subsecunda (Harv.) Bedn.-Ochyra &
Ochyra
Contributor. R. Ochyra
Madagascar. Diana Region, Tsaratanana Massif, 14°
01′
S, 48°56′
W, 1200–2400 m a.s.l., April 1924, leg.
Perrier de la Bathe s.n. (H-Brotherus, JE-Herzog, PCP.de la Varde 0707821, PC-Thériot 0708099).
Racomitrium Brid., in its traditional circumscription
is poorly represented in the moss flora of Madagascar and hitherto only one specimen of this genus
has been discovered on this fourth largest island in
the world. It was collected in 1924 by Perrier de la
Bathie on the Tsaratanana Massif, and Thériot
(1926) reported it as an unnamed form of Racomitrium lepervanchei Besch., a species endemic to
Réunion Island. As Racomitrium proved to be heterogeneous, it was split into six segregates (Ochyra, Żarnowiec et al. 2003; Bednarek-Ochyra, Ochyra, Sawicki
et al. 2014; Bednarek-Ochyra, Sawicki, Ochyra, et al.
2015; Sawicki et al. 2015), R. lepervanchei was
placed in the genus Bucklandiella Roiv. Nevertheless,
the voucher specimen was not studied by De Sloover
(1977) in his survey of African Racomitrium and this
material was assigned either to R. crispulum
(Hook.f. & Wilson) Wilson (Crosby et al. 1983) or Bucklandiella membranacea (Mitt.) Bedn.-Ochyra & Ochyra
(Marline et al. 2012), as R. lepervanchei was considered to be conspecific with these species
(Clifford 1955; Lawton 1973). The specimen from
the Tsaratanana Massif has distinct auricles and
broad, flattened costa with 6–8 enlarged ventral
guide cells, which are typical of Bucklandiella subsecunda. This is a pantropical oreophyte, widespread
in tropical and subtropical Asia (Frisvoll 1988), subSaharan Africa (Bednarek-Ochyra and Ochyra
2012a, 2013; Ochyra and van Rooy 2013), Central
and South America (Bednarek-Ochyra et al. 1999;
Bednarek-Ochyra and Ochyra 2012b; Ellis, Bakalin
et al. 2013) and the maritime Antarctic (Ochyra,
Lewis Smith et al. 2008)