Sphaerocarpos michelii Bellardi

Alegro, Antun, Šegota, Vedran, Rimac, Anja, Kiebacher, Thomas, Prlić, Dragan, Sedlar, Zorana, Vuković, Nina & Papp, Beata, 2019, New and noteworthy bryophyte records from Croatia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (2), pp. 5-13 : 10

Sphaerocarpos michelii Bellardi

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Croatia. Town of Slatina, settlement Donji Meljani, Sladojevački lug, on arable fields, 45°44’6.71”N, 17°37’35.9”E, 112 m. a.s.l., 19.III.2015, leg. and det. D. Prlić s.n., ZA(ZA47330); Ibidem, 45°44’6.15”N, 17°37’16.87”E, 114 m a.s.l., 19.III.2015, leg. and det. D. Prlić s.n., ZA(ZA47483), Ibidem, 45°44’6.15”N, 17°37’16.87”E, 114 m a.s.l., 23.XI.2017, ZA(ZA47484); Ibidem, Radlovac, along vineyard, 45°43’53.96”N, 17°36’ 56.97”E, 156 m a.s.l., 5.III.2015, leg. and det. D. Prlić s.n., ZA(ZA47331); Ibidem, settlement Bakić, Vrela, on arable field, 45°45’32.66”N, 17°42’4.92”E, 106 m a.s.l., X.2015, leg. and det. D. Prlić s.n., ZA(ZA47332).

In Sladojevački lug the specimens were recorded in high abundance on loamy soil of corn and soya bean stubble fields, with Entosthodon fascicularis (Hedw.) Müll. Hal. , Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis Bischl. & Boisselier , Riccia glauca L., R. sorocarpa Bisch. and Tortula truncata (Hedw.) Mitt .. In Radlovac the species was less abundant, growing along an old vineyard in the northerly exposed hilly area with Barbula convoluta , B. unguiculata , Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis , Ptychostomum capillare and Tortula truncata . In Vrela, the species was scattered on loamy and sandy soil of the tobacco stubble field with Riccia sorocarpa and R. glauca . None of the new localities are situated in the Mediterranean part of Croatia. The species was recorded only in 1923 and 1924 on the bottom of the dried Maksimir Lake in Zagreb ( Horvat 1932). It is a Mediterranean-Atlantic-Macaronesian species ( Hill & Preston 1998; Frey et al. 2006), present in Southern and partially Central Europe ( Frey et al. 2006; Hodgetts 2015). It is very rare across the Balkan Peninsula, found only in Bulgaria ( Natcheva et al. 2006) and Greece ( Düll 1995). The species is known also from neighbouring Italy ( Aleffi et al. 2008).