Habitat and morphological differentiation between Pohlia annotina and P. drummondii (Mniaceae) at higher elevations in Yakushima Island, Japan

Yakushimabryum longissimum(Pylaisiadelphaceae) gen. & sp. nov., from the Yakushima Island, Japan

“…In the course of floristic studies carried out on Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan (Yokoyama et al, 2006;Akiyama et al 2009), an epiphyte moss species was found growing at several localities in mixed montane forests. It was often found intermingled with Clastobryopsis robusta (Broth.)…”

Three mosses new for the Pyrenees

“…In the Alps and the Pyrenees, the species always grows in rock cracks in altitudes generally above 2.000 m. Although many others species of propaguliferous Pohlia have been identified in the mountain and alpine belts of the Pyrénées-Orientales (P. andalusica, P. annotina, P. bulbifera, P. camptotrachela, P. drummondii, P. filum, P. proligera: personal observations), and although mixed stands of different species of Pohlia are frequent, very few other species of Pohlia are found admixed with P. andrewsii. It is thus possible that a marked ecological segregation, well documented with other taxa of the same genus (Shaw, 1981c;Akiyama et al, 2009), would be responsible for the exclusion of other species of at least part of the niche typically frequented by P. andrewsii. In fact, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, most other propaguliferous Pohlia are more or less restricted to wet and disturbed habitats, including those impacted by livestock in boggy habitats.…”

Una nueva localidad española de Leptodontium flexifolium (Dicks.) Hampe

“…In the Alps and the Pyrenees, the species always grows in rock cracks in altitudes generally above 2.000 m. Although many others species of propaguliferous Pohlia have been identified in the mountain and alpine belts of the Pyrénées-Orientales (P. andalusica, P. annotina, P. bulbifera, P. camptotrachela, P. drummondii, P. filum, P. proligera: personal observations), and although mixed stands of different species of Pohlia are frequent, very few other species of Pohlia are found admixed with P. andrewsii. It is thus possible that a marked ecological segregation, well documented with other taxa of the same genus (Shaw, 1981c;Akiyama et al, 2009), would be responsible for the exclusion of other species of at least part of the niche typically frequented by P. andrewsii. In fact, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, most other propaguliferous Pohlia are more or less restricted to wet and disturbed habitats, including those impacted by livestock in boggy habitats.…”