Schizymenium pusillum A. J. Shaw 1985 ...

• Main Authors: Ivanets, Viktoria, Wierzgoń, Mariusz, Yevchun, Hanna, Parnikoza, Ivan
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Plantae; Bryophyta; Bryopsida; Bryales; Bryaceae; Schizymenium; Schizymenium pusillum; Andrée; Andrée Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentine; Argentine Islands; Charlotte Bay; Danco; Danco Coast; Galindez; Galindez Island; Graham Coast; Livingston Island; Rasmussen; Rasmussen Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10624552; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10624552

Schizymenium pusillum (Hook. & Wilson) A.J.Shaw SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Antarctica. West Antarctic Peninsula, Graham Coast, Rasmussen Point, 65°14’49.70”S, 64°05’6.76”W, in fissures of rocks in the short moss turf and cushion subformation, 9.II.2016, Parnikoza 21a/16 (KRAM [B-260625]). REMARKS A new locality of Schizymenium pusillum on Rasmussen Point is apparently the first discovery of this species on the mainland Antarctic Peninsula. Hitherto, it was collected only on the offshore islands of the Antarctic Peninsula, including Andrée Island in Charlotte Bay on the Danco Coast and Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands and Rasmussen Island off the Graham Coast (Clarke & Lightowlers 1983). It is one of the rarest species of moss in the Antarctic and is only known elsewhere in the biome from a single record on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands (Sancho et al. 1999) (Fig. 6). Like elsewhere, S. pusillum was collected in a sheltered site in crevices of volcanic rock, growing together with ... : Published as part of Ivanets, Viktoria, Wierzgoń, Mariusz, Yevchun, Hanna & Parnikoza, Ivan, 2023, Range extensions for moss species on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, pp. 61-88 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (2) on page 72, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2023v44a2, http://zenodo.org/record/10624499 ...