Castro, M., Fraga, P., Torres, N. & Rosselló, J. A. 2007: Cytotaxonomical observations on flowering plants from the Balearic Islands. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 409–415.
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Mildén, M., Cousins, S. A. O. & Ove Eriksson, O. 2007: The distribution of four grassland plant species in relation to landscape history in a Swedish rural area. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 416–426.
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Flakus, A. 2007: Lichenized and lichenicolous fungi from mylonitized areas of the subnival belt in the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 427–449.
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He-Nygrén, X. 2007: Multi-gene phylogeny supports single origin of jungermannioid perigynium. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 450–462.
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Szelag, Z. 2007: Hieracia balcanica IV. The correct names for Hieracium oreades Heuff. (Asteraceae). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 463–464.
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Väre, H. 2007: Typification of names published by the Finnish botanist Fredrik Nylander. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 465–480.
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Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Tolui, Z. & Amirabadizadeh, H. 2007: Onobrychis assadii (Fabaceae), a new species from Iran. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 481–484.
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Li, H. T., Yang, J. B. & Li, D. Z. 2007: Hemsleya kunmingensis (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 485–491.
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Liu, W. Q., Jin, J. H. & Liao, W. B. 2007: Ophiopogon acerobracteatus (Convallariaceae), a new species from southern China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 492–494.
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Nomenclatural novelties in Ann. Bot. Fennici 44(6). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 495.
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Castro, M., Fraga, P., Torres, N. & Rosselló, J. A. 2007: Cytotaxonomical observations on flowering plants from the Balearic Islands. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 409–415.
The mitotic chromosome numbers of 40 accessions of 33 species of vascular plants collected in the Balearic Islands are presented. The triploid cytotype of Allium commutatum (2n = 24), the tetraploid cytotype of Scilla autumnalis (2n = 28), and the hexaploid (2n = 36) and octoploid (2n = 48) cytotypes of Tuberaria guttata are reported here for the first time in the Balearic archipelago. The tetraploid cytotype of Dactylis glomerata subsp. hispanica was not previously known from the Western Balearics, where it grows sympatrically with the diploid endemic D. glomerata subsp. ibizensis. The divergent chromosome number 2n = 26 is confirmed for Micromeria inodora. A new chromosome number (2n = 44) was determined for the restricted endemic Rubia balearica subsp. caespitosa. The existence of several infraspecific cytotypes bear phytogeographical significance.
Mildén, M., Cousins, S. A. O. & Ove Eriksson, O. 2007: The distribution of four grassland plant species in relation to landscape history in a Swedish rural area. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 416–426.
It is commonly agreed that landscape history is important for species distributions today. Here, we studied present-day regional population distribution and performance of four grassland species, the perennials Ranunculus bulbosus and Succisa pratensis, and the monocarpic "biennials" Carlina vulgaris and Tragopogon pratensis, in a Swedish rural landscape. We analysed the management history of their population patches, using vegetation maps from 1945 and 2001. Distributions of Succisa pratensis reflected the grassland occurrences in 1945 and Tragopogon pratensis was associated with the road network 60 years ago. Performance in different habitats also suggested an impact of land use on species distributions. For Ranunculus bulbosus and Carlina vulgaris the impact of landscape history was less obvious. Our results indicate that present-day distributions of some grassland species partly may be a legacy of previous semi-natural grassland patterns in rural Sweden, an insight that has valuable implications for assessments of long-term vulnerability of grassland species.
Flakus, A. 2007: Lichenized and lichenicolous fungi from mylonitized areas of the subnival belt in the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 427–449.
The lichen biota of the mylonitized areas of the subnival belt in the Tatra Mts. (Western Carpathians) was examined. A list of 325 species, including 317 lichenized fungi, seven lichenicolous fungi and one not-lichenized saprophytic fungus (Melaspilea gibberulosa), is given based on literature records and the author's original observations. As many as 105 species are recorded from the subnival belt of the Carpathians for the first time. Rhizocarpon glaucescens is reported as new to central Europe from its the southernmost locality. Other new records for several regions are added, e.g. Aspicilia polychroma var. rubrireagens, Lecanora bicinctoidea, L. cavicola, Porpidia speirea var. prochsthallina, and Thelocarpon sphaerosporum for the Carpathians; Arthonia muscigena and Lecanora stenotropa for the Western Carpathians, and Arthonia lapidicola, Cecidonia umbonella and Rhizocarpon grande for the entire range of the Tatra Mts. Thirteen species of lichenized Ascomycota (Aspicilia polychroma, Bellemerea diamarta, B. subsorediza, Dermatocarpon rivulorum, Gyalidea subscutellaris, Lecanora bicinctoidea, L. cavicola, L. stenotropa, Leptogium imbricatum, Rhizocarpon glaucescens, Thelidium olivaceum, Thelocarpon sphaerosporum, and Toninia coelestina), and one lichenicolous fungus (Cecidonia umbonella) are reported from Poland for the first time. The ecology and distribution of some interesting species and the conservation status of the lichen biota in the study region are discussed. The study clearly shows the importance of the mylonitized areas of the subnival belt for the biodiversity in the Carpathians.
He-Nygrén, X. 2007: Multi-gene phylogeny supports single origin of jungermannioid perigynium. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 450–462.
Within the leafy liverworts, the evolution of the perigynium, the stem-derived structure that protects the developing sporophytes, has been understood as merely a parallelism, and families that have this feature have been placed to various suborders. The present study suggests a single origin of the perigynium in the leafy liverworts and the presence of perigynium being a synapomorphy for the suborder Jungermanniineae. The phylogenetic analyses were conducted using thirty-four leafy liverworts including twelve genera bearing a perigynium, and sequence data for rbcL, rps4, trnL-F cpDNA and 26S nrDNA. Within the Jungermanniineae three monophyletic lineages are recognized: the Acrobolbaceae lineage, the Trichotemnomaceae–Balantiopsidaceae lineage, and the lineage consisting of Jungermanniaceae and its closest related Gymnomitriaceae, Delavayellaceae, Geocalycaceae s. stricto, Antheliaceae, Calypogeiaceae and Gyrothyraceae. The long branches of the latter three families indicate that they are more isolated from a common jungermannioid ancestor. The family Jungermanniaceae is resolved as paraphyletic and its circumscription and relationships require further study.
Szelag, Z. 2007: Hieracia balcanica IV. The correct names for Hieracium oreades Heuff. (Asteraceae). — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 463–464.
It is demonstrated that Hieracium banaticola Sudre, published as a new name for H. oreades Heuff., is illegitimate. The correct names are H. heuffelii Janka and Pilosella petraea F.W. Schultz & Schultz-Bip. Both names are lectotypified.
Väre, H. 2007: Typification of names published by the Finnish botanist Fredrik Nylander. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 465–480.
The plant names (23) published by Fredrik Nylander (1820–1880) are lectotypified. In total Nylander described 39 taxa, consisting of 11 species, eight subspecies and 20 varieties. In addition, he published one unranked name and made ten combinations. He also collected specimens (30 taxa) to the Herbarium Normale distributed by Elias Fries in 1840–1846. The type specimens were collected mainly in the northwestern Russia. Carex spiculosa Fr. is lectotypified also. Three new combinations are proposed, Carex x acutangula (F. Nyl.) Väre (C. acuta L. x salina Wahlenb.), Eriophorum russeolum Fr. subsp. albidum (F. Nyl.) Väre and Scorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench var. keretina (F. Nyl.) Väre. Viola x fennica F. Nyl. antedates V. x ruprechtiana Borb.
Ranjbar, M., Karamian, R., Tolui, Z. & Amirabadizadeh, H. 2007: Onobrychis assadii (Fabaceae), a new species from Iran. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 481–484.
Onobrychis assadii Ranjbar, Tolui & Amirabadizadeh sp. nova (Fabaceae) from Iran is described and illustrated. It is confined to the northeastern part of Iran (Khorassan Province) and known from only single locality. The new species differs from the other Iranian Onobrychis species mainly by the glabrous pods.
Li, H. T., Yang, J. B. & Li, D. Z. 2007: Hemsleya kunmingensis (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 485–491.
Hemsleya kunmingensis H.T. Li & D.Z. Li sp. nova (Cucurbitaceae) is described and illustrated from the Yunnan Province, China. It appears to have been rarely collected and the previous collections examined have remained undetermined to species level or were misidentified due to the absence of flowers and fruits. The most prominent features of the species are the very small, yellowish green, laxly patelliform corolla with evaginate petals that revolute into an anchor shape at the apex, the well-developed dichasium, the obconic fruit, and the lenticulated seed without seed-wing. Its relationship to closely similar species is discussed in the light of morphological and molecular data.
Liu, W. Q., Jin, J. H. & Liao, W. B. 2007: Ophiopogon acerobracteatus (Convallariaceae), a new species from southern China. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 492–494.
Ophiopogon acerobracteatus R.H. Miau ex W.B. Liao, J.H. Jin & W.Q. Liu, a species with affinity to O. intermedius in section Ophiopogon, is described as a new species from Guangdong, China.