Plagiothecium laetum Schimp.

Papp, Beáta, Pantović, Jovana & Sabovljević, Marko S., 2019, Additions to the bryophyte flora of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (15), pp. 159-166 : 163

Plagiothecium laetum Schimp.

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Republic of Northern Macedonia. Source area of Crni Drim river at Sveti Atanasij church in Sveti Naum monastery complex at Ohrid lake, on the base of Alnus glutinosa , 40°54’37.8”N, 20°44’53.1”E, 715 m a.s.l., 17.X.2016, leg. Papp B. and Pantovi ć J. s.n., BP[BP 193652].

REMARKS

This is a widespread European species rather less present in the Mediterranean areas ( Hodgetts 2015). In the Balkans, it is known from Albania ( Marka et al. 2018), Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia ( Sabovljević et al. 2008; Ros et al. 2013; Hodgetts 2015), although in general it was not frequently reported from these countries. In the rest of the Mediterranean area, it was recorded in Andorra, France, Italy, Madeira (although excluded in Hodgetts 2015), Portugal, Spain and Turkey (Ros at al. 2013).Here, this taxon is treated in the sense of Smith (2004), for which the diagnostic character is the not curved downwards leaf apices.