Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis Ochyra

• Main Authors: Ivanets, Viktoria, Wierzgoń, Mariusz, Yevchun, Hanna, Parnikoza, Ivan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Plantae; Bryophyta; Bryopsida; Hypnales; Amblystegiaceae; Warnstorfia; Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis; Adelaide Island; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Bluff Island; Hovgaard Island; Palmer Archipelago; South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10624630; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03816F5BD01B951EFC93F955CA2CFD1F

Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis (Müll.Hal.) Ochyra SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Antarctica . West Antarctic Peninsula, Danco Coast, Graham Passage region, Murray (Bluff) Island, 64°23’41.35”S, 61°29’47.72”W, abundant on wet rock on a vegetated point in the bryophyte carpet and mat subformation, 30.I.2020, Parnikoza 3/20 (KRAM [B-258875]); Graham Coast, Hovgaard Island, north-eastern oasis, 65°7’15.00”S, 64°4’7.00”W, in the depression on moss bank 12.II.2022, Parnikoza 08/22 (KRAM [B-262843]); Barison Peninsula, Waugh Mountain, 65°30’42.53”S, 64°05’00.49”W, on wet rocks in the bryophyte carpet and mat subformation, 25.II.2020, Parnikoza 15/20 (KRAM [B-258887]). REMARKS Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis is a hydrophytic moss usually growing in abundance in constantly wet or moist habitats including dripping rock faces, wet soil and humus in crevices, depressions and cracks on barren rocks, margins of streams and melt water channels, pools and lakes, as well as swamps on level or gently sloping ground. It is one of the principal components in the bryophyte carpet and mat subformation, most often growing together with Sanionia georgicouncinata (Müll.Hal.) Ochyra & Hedenäs (Ochyra et al . 2008a; Loisel et al . 2017). Warnstorfia fontinaliopsis is a widespread species and its more or less continuous range extends from the South Orkney Islands to the Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, with two highly isolated stations on the Fallières Coast in the northern part of Marguerite Bay where it reaches its southernmost locality on the Line Islands east of Adelaide Island at latitude 67°55’S. It is common and most abundant in the South Orkney Islands and in the South Shetland Islands as well as in the Palmer Archipelago off the Danco Coast, particularly on the southern coast of Anvers Islands and its offshore islands. On the mainland northern Antarctic Peninsula W. fontinaliopsis is widely scattered and localised (Figs 12; 13). It is known merely from a single station on the Davis Coast and from seven localities on the ...