New Bryophyte Records from Macaronesia
Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 2018, 39 (1): 61-76 © 2018 Adac. Tous droits réservés New bryophyte records from Macaronesia GerardM.DIRKSEa,b*,Jurgen A.W.NIEUWKOOPc,Alain VANDERPOORTENd, Ana LOSADA-LIMAe,Juana M. GONZÁLEZ-MANCEBOe,JairoPATIÑo d,e,f, André SOTIAUXd,Raquel HERNÁNDEZ-HERNÁNDEZe &Alexandra RODRÍGUEZ-ROMEROe aNatuurmuseum Nijmegen, GerardNoodtstraat 121, 6511STNijmegen, The Netherlands bNaturalis Biodiversity Center,Leiden, The Netherlands cVluchtheuvelstraat 6, 6621 BK Dreumel, The Netherlands dUniversity of Liège, Institute of Botany,B22 Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium eUniversidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Botánica, EcologíayFisiologíaVegetal, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España fAzorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research &Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, 9700-024, Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal Abstract – In this paper we provide new bryophyte reports for Macaronesia as awhole, for single archipelagos, and for single islands. New to Macaronesia are Aneura pseudopinguis, Didymodon brachyphyllus, Diplophyllum obtusifolium, Distichium capillaceum, and Schizymenium pontevedrense.First archipelago reports concern Brachythecium albicans (Canary Islands), Bryum dichotomum (Cape Verde), B. kunzei (Canary Islands), Homalothecium aureum (Cape Verde), Hydrogonium bolleanum (Madeira), Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Canary Islands), Pohlia cruda (Madeira), Pterygoneurum ovatum (Canary Islands), Schistidium flaccidum (Madeira), and Tortella fasciculata (Madeira). First single island reports are given for 42 species. Africa /Azores /Canary Islands /Cape Verde /Distribution data /Europe /Liverworts / Madeira /Mosses INTRODUCTION Macaronesia, in awide sense, consists of five archipelagos, including Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Selvagens, Madeira, and Azores. The islands have avolcanic origin and are situated in the Atlantic Ocean, offthe coasts of Southwestern Europe and Western Africa, between 15 and 30o N(Vanderpoorten et al.,2011).
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