Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae Article ID: 902 DOI: 10.5586/asbp.902 SHORT COMMUNICATION in FLORISTICS AND PLANT CONSERVATION Publication History Received: 2020-11-14 Polystichum setiferum at the Northeastern Accepted: 2021-01-15 Published: 2021-04-16 Limit of Its Distribution Range Handling Editor 1* 2 3* Edyta Gola; University of Dariusz Tlałka , Elwira Sliwinska , Jerzy Kruk Wrocław, Poland; 1Independent/nonaffiliated researcher https://orcid.org/0000-0002- 2Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Cytometry, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, 4111-6785 UTP University of Science and Technology, Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland 3Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Authors’ Contributions Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland DT performed the feld studies, wrote the manuscript, and * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Emails:
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[email protected] ES performed the cytometric studies and wrote the manuscript; JK performed feld Abstract studies and microscopic measurements, wrote the During feld studies in 2019 in the Beskid Śląski mountain range in southern manuscript, and prepared the Poland, one individual morphologically resembling Polystichum setiferum was fgures found. Nuclear DNA content analysis confrmed the species identity. e new Funding stand of P. setiferum corresponds to historical literature reports and herbarium This research was supported by specimens from the Czech Republic and Poland, and extends the northeastern scientifc subvention limit of the distribution of this species. As the historical stands in both countries N19/DBS/000009 of the have not been confrmed, the newly discovered stand is at present strongly Jagiellonian University.