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Additions to the Moss Flora of SicilyAuthor(s): Frank MüllerSource: Herzogia, 23(1):171-172. 2013.Published By: Bryological and Lichenological Association for Central EuropeDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13158/heia.23.1.2010.171URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.13158/heia.23.1.2010.171

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Herzogia 23 (1), 2010 • Kurzmitteilungen / short communications 171

Additions to the moss flora of Sicily

Frank Müller

Abstract: Müller, F. 2010. Additions to the moss flora of Sicily. – Herzogia 23: 171–172.Seligeria calycina is reported for the first time with certainty for Italy from Sicily. Fissidens rivularis is reported as new for Sicily. Antitrichia californica, known only from an earlier record, was rediscovered.

Zusammenfassung: Müller, F. 2010. Ergänzungen zur Moosflora von Sizilien. – Herzogia 23: 171–172.Von Seligeria calycina wird der erste sichere Nachweis für Italien von Sizilien angegeben. Fissidens rivularis ist neu für Sizilien. Antitrichia californica konnte nach langer Zeit wieder auf Sizilien nachgewiesen werden.

Key words: Italy, Seligeria, Fissidens, Antitrichia.

Introduction Aleffi et al. (2008) included 419 references with records from Sicily in their checklist of bryophytes for Italy. Altogether 121 hornworts and liverworts, and 456 mosses are known from the island. Although the bryophyte flora of Sicily is well known, additions are still possi-ble. During a holiday trip in March 2009, the author collected two species previously unknown from the island and a third known only from records prior to 1950.

Species listAntitrichia californica Sull. Sicily, Madonie: Piano Sempria, along the path from Castelbuono to the Rifugio Francesco

Crispi, on boulders in a scree slope, 28.03.2009, F. Müller, DR 039864. Aleffi et al. (2008) cited this species for Sicily as “reports published before 1950”. The oc-

currence of this species in Sicily, however, is hereby confirmed. Aleffi et al. (2008) also listed recent records from Sardinia, additional historical records from Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige, and a dubious historical record from Tuscany.

Fissidens rivularis (Spruce) Bruch & Schimp. Sicily, Galati Mamertino: valley of Firalia at the Cascata del Catafurco, on wet rocks at the cas-

cade, 29.03.2009, F. Müller, DR 039862. This species has a Mediterranean-Atlantic distribution, known from Europe, Southwest Asia,

North Africa, and Macaronesia. In Europe, the species is known from most regions around the Mediterranean Sea with northernmost records in Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Belgium.

The species was heretofore known in Italy from Piedmont, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Apulia, and Calabria (Aleffi et al. 2008). The species is new for Sicily.

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Seligeria calycina Mitt. ex Lindb. Sicily, Noto: Cava Grande del Cassibile, on limestone rocks, 23.03.2009, F. Müller, DR 039863. Gos & Ochyra (1994) provided a distribution map of this species, the center of which is in south-

eastern England, and in neighboring northern France and Belgium. A few collections are also known from Northern Ireland. Gos & Ochyra (1994) included records from Portugal and Crete, and considered the species to have an Atlantic-Mediterranean distribution. However, recently the species has been reported from Serbia, Greece, and Turkey (SabovljeviĆ et al. 2008).

This is the first verified record for the Italian bryoflora, the species having been excluded by Gos & Ochyra (1994) and Aleffi et al. (2008) since the report by Levier (1905) was based a misdetermined specimen of S. recurvata (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.

AcknowledgementsI am grateful to R. A. Pursell (The Pennsylvania State University) for comments on the manuscript and checking the English.

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Manuscript accepted: 15 March 2010.

Address of the author Frank Müller, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Botanik, 01062 Dresden, Germany. E-mail: frank.mueller@tu-dresden.de