New records for the bryophyte flora of Corsica
Author
Hugonnot, Vincent
Le bourg, 43380 Blassac (France) vincent. hugonnot @ wanadoo. fr
hugonnot@wanadoo.fr
text
Cryptogamie, Bryologie
2019
2019-10-02
20
14
153
158
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a14
journal article
10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a14
1776-0992
12215529
Riella notarisii
(Mont.) Mont.
SPECIMEN
EXAMINED
. —
France
. Haute-Corse, Barcaggio, temporary ponds d’A Cala,
30.IV.2017
,
5 m
a.s.l.,
V. Hugonnot s.n.
Remarks
It was found in great abundance in the Corsican locality in a brackish Mediterranean pond with mix water supply (sea water and meteoric water).
Riella notarisi
, as most of species of the genus, is a typical species of clean, shallow temporary ponds (
Segarra-Moragues
et al.
2014
). It is a halotolerant subneutrophilous-basiphilous species (Dierβen 2001).
The determination of the sexual condition may offer special difficulties since antheridia are difficult to locate; they are hidden in a profusion of vegetative appendages very close to the growing point at the margin of the developing wing. The accurate determination of
Riella notarisi
relies heavily on its monoecy (
Casas
et al.
2009
).
Riella notarisi
is an European-Mediterranean species, which distribution includes Central Europe (
Bischler 2004
). In the Mediterranean Region it is recorded from the Canary Islands in Macaronesia; the Balearic Islands, Crete,
Croatia
,
France
,
Greece
,
Portugal
, Sardinia, Sicily and
Spain
in southern Europe;
Algeria
,
Morocco
and
Tunisia
in northern Africa (
Bischler 2004
;
Ros
et al.
2007
). In Southern
France
, it is recorded patchily in Hérault, Bouche-du-Rhône, and Var Departments (
Crozals 1903
;
Skrzypczak 2001
, erroneously
sub
Riella parisii
Gottsche
(specimen N° 1048 from French Groupe d’Échange des bryophytes,
leg. Renée Skrzypczaky
, duplicate at Vincent Hugonnot private herbarium revised by Benoît Offerhaus).