B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 36. 2005 (Budapest, 2005)

Erzberger, Peter: The bulbilliferous species of Pohlia (Bryaceae, Musci) in Hungary

Studia bot. hung. 36, pp. 67-75, 2005 THE BULBILLIFEROUS SPECIES OF POHLIA (BRYACEAE, MUSCI) IN HUNGARY P. ERZBERGER Beiziger Str. 37, D-l0823 Berlin, Germany Revision of the herbarium specimens in the Bryophyte Herbarium of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (BP) and Eszterházy Károly College, Eger (EGR) of bulbilliferous Pohlia species collected in Hungary revealed that four species are present in the country: Pohlia andalusica (Höhn.) Broth., new to Hungary, Pohlia annotina (Hedw.) Lindb., Pohlia camptotrachela (Renauld et Cardot) Broth., and Pohlia proligera (Breidl.) Lindb. ex Arnell. Maps of their distribution in Hungary and some specimen data are given, and an illustrated key to all bulbilliferous Pohlia species of Europe is provided. Key words: distribution maps, illustrated key to European species, records of bulbilliferous Pohlia species in Hungary INTRODUCTION Within the last decades important contributions to the taxonomy of bulbilliferous Pohlia species have been published (LEWIS and SMITH 1978, SHAW 1981, NORDHORN-RICHTER 1982, DEMARET and ARTS 1993), leading to clarification of the species concepts and the nomenclature of this complex. In the Hungarian bryological literature (BOROS 1968, ORBÁN and VAJDA 1983), five taxa of the complex in question are mentioned under various names: P. annotina (syn. P. grandiflora H. Lindb.), P. bulbifera (Warnst.) Warnst., P.filum (syn. P. gracilis (Bruch et Schimp.) Lindb.), Pohlia camptotrachela, P. drummondii (Müll. Hal.) A. L. Andrews. However, interpretation of these data is problematic, since the synonymy given by ORBÁN and VAJDA (1983) is erroneous, and in BOROS (1968), P. annotina and P. grandiflora are treated as separate species. In order to establish the meaning of these reports, it was thus necessary to revise the herbarium specimens of the species in question. During revisionary work the need was felt for a key of all European bulbilliferous Pohlia species, since existing keys were found inappropriate for one reason or another, mainly because they did not treat all species presently reported from Europe.