Schistidium trichodon (Brid.) Poelt var. trichodon

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 : 8

Schistidium trichodon (Brid.) Poelt var. trichodon

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Croatia. Samoborsko gorje Mt, road between Samobor and Slani dol, beneath the hamlet of Gradišće, 45°48’20’’N, 15°40’15’’E, 271 m a.s.l., 14.XI.2016, leg. and det. T. Kiebacher s.n., conf. N. Schnyder, ZA(ZA45486).

It was found on a shaded calcareous rock at the roadside in a forest dominated by Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and with Vaccinium myrtillus L. in the understorey. This locality is not situated in the Mediterranean part of Croatia. Schistidium trichodon is a Boreal Montane species ( Düll 1984; Hill & Preston 1998; Smith 2004), present in Northern, Central and partially Eastern Europe ( Smith 2004; Hodgetts 2015). The species is rare, and possibly underrecorded in the Balkans, where it is only known from Montenegro ( Dragićević & Veljić 2006), Romania ( Stefănuţ & Goia 2012) and Slovenia ( Martinčič 2014). It is known also from neighbouring Italy ( Aleffi et al. 2008).