Published November 30, 2022 | Version v1
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Plagiobryoides orbiculatifolia Ochyra & Bedn.

  • 1. California Academy of Sciences, Department of Botany, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118 - 4503 (United States) bryum 500. js @ gmail. com

Description

Plagiobryoides orbiculatifolia (Cardot & Broth.) Ochyra & Bedn. -Ochyra

RECORDED ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AS. — Bryum orbiculatifolium Cardot & Broth.

NOTES

This species was previously recorded by Larraín et al. (2016), and has an unusual distribution, found in southern South America, South Georgia, Heard Island, Antarctica, and Tristan da Cunha. A south temperate/South America species, occasionally penetrating to subantarctic South Georgia (Ochyra et al. 2002) and the maritime Antarctic where it occurs on volcanic islands in the South Sandwich Islands and on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands archipelagoes and only once recorded in the continental Antarctic in the Schirmacher Oasis (Ochyra & Singh 2008; Ochyra et al. 2008a, b). A southern hemisphere/southern amphiatlantic temperate species.

Notes

Published as part of Spence, John R., 2022, Studies in Austral Bryaceae (Bryopsida). IV. New records from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), with a phytogeographic analysis of the family, pp. 211-224 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (15) on page 215, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2022v43a15, http://zenodo.org/record/7822527

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bryaceae
Genus
Plagiobryoides
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Bryales
Phylum
Bryophyta
Scientific name authorship
Ochyra & Bedn.
Species
orbiculatifolia
Taxon rank
species

References

  • LARRAIN J., CRABTREE D., TANGNEY R. & KONRAT M. VON 2016. - New records for the Falkland Islands moss flora. Cryptogamie, Bryologie 38 (4): 447 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.7872 / cryb / v 38. iss 4.2017.447
  • OCHYRA R., BEDNAREK- OCHYRA H. & LEWIS SMITH R. I. 2002. - New and rare moss species from subantarctic South Georgia. Nova Hedwigia 74 (1 - 2): 121 - 147. http: // doi. org / 10.1127 / 0029 - 5035 / 2002 / 0074 - 0121
  • OCHYRA R., BEDNAREK- OCHYRA H. & LEWIS SMITH R. I. 2008 a. - New and rare moss species from the Antarctic. Nova Hedwigia 87 (3 - 4): 457 - 477. http: // doi. org / 10.1127 / 0029 - 5035 / 2008 / 0087 - 0457