B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 33. 2002 (Budapest, 2002)

Papp, Beáta; Sabovljevic, Marko: The Bryophyte flora of Tara National Park (W Serbia, Yugoslavia)

Serbian spruce, a relict species discovered by Pancic in 1875 in the Tara Mts near Zaovine village. With its very narrow crown, this is the most characteristic and beautiful, endemic conifer species of Yugoslavia. In the nature reserve "Crveni Potok" (also part of the national park) another "polydominant" relict forest (Piceeto-Abieto-Fageto-Alnetum mixtum) is present. This is the site with the largest fen in the Tara Mts. The vascular flora of Tara National Park contains 958 species (about 30% of the Serbian flora) with many endemic and relict elements (GAJIC 1988). Merits of the rich fauna include Pyrrgomorphella serbica, an endemic Serbian grasshopper, and over 100 bird and 24 mammal species. Tara is proposed by UNESCO to be protected as a "World Nature and Cultural Heritage" and/or "Man and Biosphere Reserve". The border lines of the national park will be extended into the neighbouring Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and the new name of the park will be "Drina". Concerning the bryoflora of the national park, there is only a few data on the subject. GAJIC (1988) mentions 1 hepatic (Marchantia polymorpha) and 16 moss species (Sphagnum magellanicum, S. palustre, S. recurvum, Dicranum scoparium, Rhizomnium punctatum, Plagiomnium rostratum, P. undulatum, Climacium dendroides, Neckera crispa, Isothecium myosuroides, Anomodon viticulosus, Thuidium tamariscinum, Eurhynchium striatum, Hypnum cupressiforme, Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus and Polytrichum commune). METHODS Field trips were made in May 1998, July 2000, and May and September 2001. All main habitat types, such as gorges, streams, fens and different forest types developed on various bedrocks were visited and bryophytes collected from different substrates (soil, calcareous and non-calcareous, exposed and shaded rocks, tree barks and decaying wood) to record the bryophytes of the national park as completely as possible. The identification was based mainly on SMITH (1991, 1993), FREY et al. (1995) and CORTINI PEDROTTI (2001); in case of difficult genera other references were used, too (BLOM 1996, KRAMER 1980, LEWINSKY-HAAPASAARI 1995, MAIER and GEISSLER 1995, SAUER 1998, SMITH 1997). The specimens are preserved both in the Herbarium of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (BP) and in the Herbarium of Belgrade University (BEOU). Nomenclature of the species follows CORLEY et al. (1981), CORLEY and CRUNDWELL (1991), and SCHUMACKER and VÁNA (2000). To establish the European distribution types in the floristical evaluation, we followed DULL (1983, 1984, 1985, 1992).