B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 34. 2003 (Budapest, 2003)

Papp, Beáta; Sabovljevic, M.: Contribution to the bryophyte flora of Turkish Thrace

Studia bot. Illing. 34, pp. 43-54, 2003 CONTRIBUTION TO THE BRYOPHYTE FLORA OF TURKISH THRACE B. PAPP

1 and M. SABOVLJEVIC

2 'Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1476 Budapest, Pf 222, Hungary; E-mail: pappbea@bot.nhmus.hu 2

Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Takovska 43, YU-1J000 Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro E-mail: marko@bjbot. bg. ac.yu A total of 142 bryophyte taxa (17 liverworts and 125 mosses) was collected during a field trip led to Turkish Thrace in May of 2000. Seven species i.e. Bryum rubens, Didymodon sicculus, Fissidens polyphyllus, Fissidens serrulatus, Orthotrichum microcarpum, Seligeria paucifolia, Schistidium singarense are new records for Turkey. Most of the species collected are taxa of the temperate zone of Europe. A relatively high proportion (37%) of the species has subatlantic, sub-Mediterranean distribution; several Mediterranean elements (20 species mainly liverworts) and a few boreal, subboreal species (11 species) contribute to the diversity of the flora according to the collected material. Key words: bryophytes, Thrace, Turkey INTRODUCTION For nearly three centuries the flora and vegetation of Turkey have been investigated not only by botanists but also by various travellers, geographers, geologists, archaeologists, ethnologists etc. However, bryological study takes only a very small amount ofthat effort. Lately, in the past few decades, some bryological researches have been conducted by WALTHER and LEBLEBICI (1969), WALTHER (1975, 1979), GÖLKER et al. (1984), YAYINTAS and IWATSUKI (1988), ÇET1N (1991), GÖLKER and ÖZTÜRK (1991, 1996), YAYINTAS, (1993, 1994), YAYINTAS and TONGUÇ (1993, 1994), TOWSEND (1997), MÜLLER (1998) and KUCERA (1998). Checklists of Turkish liverworts (GÖLKER et al. 1986 and ÇETIN 1988«) and mosses (ÇETIN 1988£>) are also available. A comprehensive work about the bryophyte flora of southwestern Asia was published by FREY and KÜRSCHNER (1991). Some interesting data concerning the bryology and the bryophytes in South Eastern Europe can be found in SABOVLJEVIC et al (2001). Notwithstanding these efforts (and of many others), certain areas of Turkey remain bryologically under-explored. One of these is Turkish Thrace (the European part of Turkey) (Fig. 1). Apart from GÖLKER and ÖZTÜRK (1996) there are no data on the bryophytes of Turkish Thrace.