TAILIEUCHUNG - New and interesting moss records for Iran

Four moss species, namely, Tetraphis pellucida Hedw (Tetraphidaceae), Ulota crispa (Hedw.) Brid. (Orthotrichaceae), Haplohymenium triste (Ces.) Kindb. (Anomodontaceae), and Rhynchostegiella litorea (De Not.) Limpr. (Brachytheciaceae) are recorded from Iran. | Turk J Bot 31 (2007) 41-48 © TÜB‹TAK Research Article New and Interesting Moss Records for Iran Ahmad GHAHREMAN1, Moussa FARIDI1,*, Saeed SHIRZADIAN2, Farideh ATTAR1 1 Central Herbarium of Tehran University, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Biology, University College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran - IRAN 2Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran - IRAN Received: Accepted: Abstract: Four moss species, namely, Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. (Tetraphidaceae), Ulota crispa (Hedw.) Brid. (Orthotrichaceae), Haplohymenium triste (Ces.) Kindb. (Anomodontaceae), and Rhynchostegiella litorea (De Not.) Limpr. (Brachytheciaceae) are recorded from Iran. The specimens were collected from Kheiroodkenar Forest, Mazandaran Province (north of Iran). Key Words: Bryophytes, Mosses, Iran, Mazandaran Province Introduction Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) rank second among the major groups of green plants, with an estimated 20,000 species worldwide, and they have successfully exploited many environments, possibly because they are rarely in direct competition with higher plants. The Iranian bryoflora, in total, comprises 399 species including 330 species of mosses (Bryopsida) in 114 genera and 69 species of hepatics and hornworts (Hepaticopsida and Anthocerothopsida, respectively) in 36 genera (Ghahreman et al., 2003; Akhani & Kürschner, 2004; Kürschner & Ramezani, 2005), or somewhat more than of the world’s bryophyte species. Unfortunately, despite bryophyte diversity, phylogenetic importance and their ecological roles, the study of the biology and taxonomy of bryophytes has long been neglected compared with flowering plants in Iran, perhaps because of their small size and the lack of indigenous specialists. Previous studies on Iranian bryophytes were mostly carried out by foreign botanists. In fact, the first study was started in the second half of the 19th century by Boissier & Buhse .

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