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Contents of Volume 38 Number 2, 2001

Margonska, H. B. & Szlachetko, D. L. 2001: Alatiliparis (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae), a new orchid genus with two new species from Sumatra. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 77–81.
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Potemkin, A. D. 2001: Three new species of Scapania (Hepaticae) from India and China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 83–89.
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Szlachetko, D. L. & Margonska, H. B. 2001: Crossoglossa neirynckiana (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae), a new species from Ecuador. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 91–93.
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Uotila, P. 2001: Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae) for Flora Nordica. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 95–97.
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Widén, C.-J., Fraser-Jenkins, C. R., Reichstein, T. & Sarvela, J. 2001: A survey of phenolic compounds in Dryopteris and related fern genera. Part III. Phloroglucinol derivatives in subgenera Erythrovaria and Nephrocystis and related genera (Pteridophyta, Dryopteridaceae). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 99–138.
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Vuorela, I., Lempiäinen, T. & Saarnisto, M. 2001: Land use pollen record from the Island of Valamo, Russian Karelia. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 139–165.
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Nomenclatural novelties in Ann. Bot. Fennici 38(2): 166.
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Margonska, H. B. & Szlachetko, D. L. 2001: Alatiliparis (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae), a new orchid genus with two new species from Sumatra. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 77–81.

A new orchid genus Alatiliparis Marg. & Szlach. is described to accommodate A. filicornes Marg. & Szlach. sp. nova and A. otochilus Marg. & Szlach. sp. nova. Alatiliparis is compared with the closely allied Liparis L. C. Rich. All new taxa are described and illustrated in line drawings.

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Potemkin, A. D. 2001: Three new species of Scapania (Hepaticae) from India and China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 83–89.

Three new species of Scapania (Dumort.) Dumort., S. davidii Potemkin, S. sinikkae Potemkin, and S. schljakovii Potemkin are described from collections of Dr. David G. Long (Edinburgh, Scotland) from India and China. The species are illustrated in line drawings. Their infrageneric position and diagnostic characters are discussed.

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Szlachetko, D. L. & Margonska, H. B. 2001: Crossoglossa neirynckiana (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae), a new species from Ecuador. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 91–93.

Crossoglossa neirynckiana Marg. & Szlach. sp. nova (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae) from Ecuador is described and illustrated in line drawings. It is compared with the closely related C. tipuloides (Lindl.) Dodson.

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Uotila, P. 2001: Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae) for Flora Nordica. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 95–97.

The South African member of the Chenopodium schraderianum aggr. is recognized at species level, as Chenopodium pseudomultiflorum (Murr) Uotila stat. & comb. nova. Specimens in LINN have been rejected as original material for Blitum chenopodioides L., and a neotype is chosen for the name, maintaining its usage in the sense proposed by P. Aellen in 1933. Chenopodium blomianum Aellen is lectotypified. — Flora Nordica Note No. 28.

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Widén, C.-J., Fraser-Jenkins, C. R., Reichstein, T. & Sarvela, J. 2001: A survey of phenolic compounds in Dryopteris and related fern genera. Part III. Phloroglucinol derivatives in subgenera Erythrovaria and Nephrocystis and related genera (Pteridophyta, Dryopteridaceae). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 99–138.

The phloroglucinol derivatives of 26 species of Dryopteris belonging to the subgenera Erythrovaria and Nephrocystis are listed and the taxonomy is discussed based on both chemistry and morphology. The ferns of section Erythrovariae in general contain aspidin (6) in their rhizomes and petiolar bases, whereas those of section Variae have margaspidin (13) (subgenus Erythrovaria). The ferns of sections Purpurascentes and Diclisodon usually contain only minute amounts of phloroglucinols or are totally lacking these phenolics. Consequently no characteristic compounds appear to occur in subgenus Nephrocystis. In addition, 102 species (including varieties) belonging to various genera of the Dryopteridaceae, including subfamilies Dryopteridoideae, Polystichoideae, Peranematoideae and Tectarioideae as well as to the families Davalliaceae and Oleandraceae have been investigated for the occurrence of phloroglucinols and glands. Dryopsis apiciflora, D. clarkei and D. nidus differed from all other taxa in containing great percentages of ether extract (oleo-resin) and phloroglucinols (crude filicin) as well as internal secreting glands in their rhizomes and stipe bases (subfamily Dryopteridoideae). Of the other genera, Peranema, Diacalpe, Rumohra, Stigmatopteris, Arachnioides and Polybotrya usually contained small but clearly detectable amounts of phloroglucinols, whereas in Nothoperanema only traces or total lack of these compounds were recorded. The species investigated of Polystichum proved to be totally devoid of phloroglucinols with the exception of P. tsus-simense and P. rigens (subfamilies Dryopteridoideae, Peranematoideae and Polystichoideae). Of the genera Ctenitis and Lastreopsis (subfamily Tectaroideae), only few species contained trace amounts of phloroglucinols, the great majority were totally lacking these compounds. Also in Pleiocnemia some unknown phenolics were observed. In the other tectaroid genera no clear indications of phloroglucinols were found. The same was true of the genus Davallia (Davalliaceae) and the genus Arthropteris (Oleandraceae). All phloroglucinol containing species contained secretory structures in parenchyma of their rhizomes and stipes or on the epidermis of these organs.

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Vuorela, I., Lempiäinen, T. & Saarnisto, M. 2001: Land use pollen record from the Island of Valamo, Russian Karelia. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 38: 139–165.

Four limnic sediment cores were analysed by means of pollen and plant macrofossil analyses and radiocarbon dated from the island of Valamo (Russian Karelia). The results show evidence of Bronze Age cultivation in the western part of the island. After a period lacking evidence for this activity, agriculture respread in the area between ca. 1400–1000 BP (ca. cal AD 650–1000), the main increase being dated to ca. 800 BP (ca. cal AD 1250).

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