Bryophyte checklist of Northern Africa

Study of the bryological flora at the archaeological site of Chellah, Morocco

“…The silk is short (5 mm), red, the capsule is ellipsoidal, drawn up and green with a simple peristome made up by red teeth divided up to the middle. Ros et al, 1999); In the cracks and crevices of limestone rocks on wet sites with maritime influence. It was collected between the cracks of the limestone rocks of the studied site.…”

“…Therefore, they are moisturized progressively for the identification. Species recognition was done using the following identification keys: Augier (1966 Jelenc, 1955a, 1955b, 1967, Braun-Blanquet, 1954, cited by Ros et al, 1999). Elsewhere, it was reported on gravel and coastal sand by Augier (1966), and on sandy soil, or on old walls according to Boulay (1884 (Ros et al, 2000) observed it on the edges and cracks of granitic and quartzitic rocks and on peats between 2100 and 3300 m. It was collected on the shady limestone rocks of the studied site.…”

Sematophyllum (Sematophyllaceae, Bryophyta), a new genus and family for Russia

“…The discovery was very unexpected, as this species is a rare one and have a distribution, which can be considered to have a rather narrow range for the holarctic mosses. The species is known at present from Macaronesia (Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira), in Mediterranean Europe ranging from Portugal and Spain to Croatia, and from Algeria and Morocco in North Africa (Düll, 1985;Düll et al, 1999;Hedenäs, 1992;Ros et al, 1999). The present Transbaikalian locality in Zabaikalsky Territory of Russia has a geographical distance from the Croatia for ca.…”

Bryophytes of Libya. I. Hepatophyta: an Annotated Checklist

“…6-Porella cordaeana (Huebener) Moore and Plagiochila africana Steph.are not given in the above list because they were erroneously reported from Libya (Rungby, 1962;Ros et al, 1999 andSöderström et al, 2002).…”

“…1) started more than one century ago. However the number of papers published is relatively small; being published at long irregular intervals as follows: Ascherson (1881), Baccarini (1913), Massalongo (1914), Zodda (1914), Pampanini (1917), Zodda (1926), Pampanini (1931), Maire & Weiler (1939), Bizot & Lauriol (1950), Jovel-Ast (1956), Rungby (1962), Jovel-Ast & Bisscher (1968 and Ros et al (1999Ros et al ( , 2007. Those above authors reported 29 taxa (27 species, one subspecies and one varity) in 15 genera, 14 families, seven orders and two classes as comes below in the Table 1. Dates of collection of the 29 taxa are as expressed briefly in the legend above table one.…”