B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 37. 2006 (Budapest, 2006)

Tsakiri, E., Papp, Beáta; Szurdoki, Erzsébet: New records on the bryophytes of Mt Voras, North Greece

tral (NC) floristical area there is a total of 8 taxa that have been first reported, including all of the above mentioned taxa and also Drepanocladus aduncus (Hedw.) Warst., Sphagnum denticulatum Brid. and Warnstorfia exannulata (Schimp.) Loeske (Table 1). Sphagnum teres (Schimp.) Angstr. ex C. Hartm. was recently reported from Mt Voras by PARENT and DE ZUTTERE (2006). Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) C. Jens, ex J. Lange (GANTATSAS 1937) and Polytrichum alpinum Hedw. (KlNDBERG 1887, VAJDA 1959) have been found again in the same (NC floristical) area after a long time since their previous reports (Table 1). From Site 1 10 taxa were identified, all of them are new reports for the site and of which 2 are new bryophyte reports for Greece. This is also the second collection site of Sphagnum teres (Table 1). The first collection of this species by Parent in the year 1984 was made at the same part of the mountain as "Site 1", but at a lower altitude (1,800 m a.s.l. according to Parent's description of the collection area) (PARENT and DE ZUTTERE 2006). During our visit in the area (16 years later) this place was not found again, thus we think that due to the road construction in the mountain this first collection site of the species may have disappeared forever. From Site 2 ("Kali Pediada") 8 taxa were reported, none of them previously reported from this area, and one is a new record for the bryophyte flora of Greece (Table 1). Interestingly, we could not find Sphagnum subsecundum and S. palustre mentioned by the only existing publication on the area by ATHANASIADIS (1977), but instead S. angustifolium and S. squarrosum were collected by us. The three Southeast European countries close to the study area are FYROM, are Serbia and Bulgaria. Based on the available bryophyte check-lists for these countries (DULL et al. 1999, SABOVLJEVIC and STEVANOVIC 1999, NATCHEVA and GANEVA 2005) it is concluded that besides Greece, Sphagnum denticulatum is only reported from Bulgaria. The rest of the species has already been reported from more than one of these countries (Table 2). According to the European distribution categories (DULL 1995) it is clear that our specimens reflect the northern character of the study sites. 9 taxa belong to the "boreal" group (inch 4 subboreal, 3 boreal and 2 boreal-montane species); 2 species are subarctic-subalpine elements; 5 bryophytes are species of temperate zones of Europe, and 1 species has north-suboceanic distribution (Table 1).