Pohlia lutescens (Limpr.) H. Lindb., 1608

Erata, Hüseyin, Özen, Öznur, Batan, Nevzat & Alataş, Mevlüt, 2021, Pohlia Hedw and Oleolophozia L. Söderstr., De Roo & Hedd. species new to Turkey and South-West Asia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (1), pp. 1-10 : 7

Pohlia lutescens (Limpr.) H. Lindb.

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SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Turkey (Giresun province). Dereli district, Kümbet plateau, on soil, 40°35’28”N, 38°26’59”E, 1230-1260 m, 08.VII.2019 leg. H. Erata & N. Batan, M. Alataş, KTUB[KTUB 1608].

ECOLOGY. — Pohlia lutescens usually grows on wet soil and bare soil in open conditions on streamside. (Atherton et al. 2010). Additionally, this species grows on paths and on ditches (Bezgodov & Ignatova 2013). Turkish specimens collected in Kümbet plateau, in area of mix forest ( Picea orientalis (L.) Link, Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertner, Castanea Sativa Mill , Fagus orienntalis Lipsky. ). It was found together with Polytrichum commune Hedw. , Ptychostomum moravicum (Podp.) Ros & Mazimpaka , Pohlia wahlenbergii (F.Weber & D.Mohr) A.L.Andrews , Brachythecium rivulare Schimp. , Sanionia uncinata (Hedw.) Loeske , Calliergonella cuspidata (Hedw.) Loeske , Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedw.) Schimp. and Oxyrrhynchium hians (Hedw.) Loeske.

DISTRIBUTION. — Europe ( Italy, Britain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Corsica, Sicily, Poland, Channel Islands, Sweden, Denmark, Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, France, Serbia, Russia, Middle and South Urals); Asia ( Mongolia, China, and Turkey) ( Smith 2004; Frey et al. 2006; Bezgodov & Ignatova 2013; Ros et al. 2013; Hodgetts 2015; Ellis et al. 2017; Hodgetts et al. 2019).

DESCRIPTION

Plants

Small, thin, pale yellow-green.

Leaves

Narrow lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate towards apex, margins plane and denticulate upper part of leaves. Pale yellow-green leaves 1-3 mm long. Costa excurrent in upper leaves and ending below apex in stem leaves, percurrent.

Cells

Narrowly rhomboidal in leaves. Pale yellow, brownish, ellipsoid to ovoid knobbly rhizoidal gemmae.

REMARKS

This species is similar to Pohlia lescuriana , but different in terms of having brownish, ellipsoid to ovoid knobbly rhizoidal gemmae. P. lutescens is close to P. melanodon (Brid.) A.J.Shaw , but can easily be distinguished from latter by knobbly rhizoidal gemmae ( Smith 2004; Atherton et al. 2010; Bezgodov & Ignatova 2013; Ellis et al. 2017).

Pohlia lutescens was first reported from Sakarya province, Samanlı Mountain, Kartepe district, on soil by Ellis et al. (2017) in Turkey. This record, which is about 1000 km away from the first locality, extends its distribution range to the Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey.