Polish Botanical Journal 57(1): 149–152, 2012 NOTES ON PHILONOTIS (BARTRAMIACEAE, MUSCI). 11. THE RANGE OF PHILONOTIS SERIATA WITH CONFIRMATION OF ITS OCCURRENCE IN GREENLAND TIMO KOPONEN Abstract. The range of Philonotis seriata Mitt. is often described as continuous circumpolar, with some records from North America, Siberia and Japan. In North America the species actually occurs only in Greenland and its occurrence on this island is confi rmed. It has been reported from several countries of SW Asia, but specimens have until now been seen from the Caucasus, the Western Himalayas, and the Ural and Altai Mountains. The species is unknown from Japan. Key words: Asia, bryogeography, distribution, Europe, Greenland, Japan, North America Timo Koponen, Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History (Bryology), P.O. Box 7, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; and Finnish-Chinese Botanical Foundation, Mailantie 109, FI-08800 Lohja, Finland; e-mail: timo.koponen@helsinki.fi On the basis of the information in some handbooks RANGE IN EUROPE AND AFRICA. After its and fl oras (Dierssen 2001), Philonotis seriata Mitt. description, Philonotis seriata (Mitten 1859) re- has a wide range from North America through mained unnoticed in Europe for several decades. Europe and Siberia to Japan and it is considered The reasons probably are that: (i) it was published ‘circumpolar’ even in some recent publications, in a paper dealing with East Indian mosses (see e.g. Sim-Sim and Sérgio (2011). In the course of Koponen 2009, 2010b), although the specimens the revision of Philonotis, I begun to wonder about cited were from Europe (W. Gardiner’s specimen the scarcity of correctly identifi ed specimens from from Scotland and J. C. Schleicher’s specimen Asia in H and H-BR. North American specimens from Switzerland), and (ii) the species is rare so named were either misidentifi ed or mistaken for in Central Europe. Lindberg (1877) reported another taxon, P. americana Dismier (see Persson P. seriata from Finland and accepted it at the 1954; Malcolm et al. 2009). That P. seriata is species level in his Musci Scandinavici (Lindberg absent from continental North America has been 1879). The species occurs from Iceland through known (see below). However, P. seriata has been Fennoscandia to the Ural Mts (Ignatov & Igna- cited to occur in Greenland (Dismier 1907). Its tova 2003) and in central and south Europe in presence there is now confi rmed. high mountains, where acid bedrocks and soils are present. Duell (1985) and Sabovljević et al. Philonotis seriata Mitt. (2008) list European countries from which P. seri- J. Linn. Soc. Bot. Suppl. 1: 63. 1859. ≡ P. fontana (Hedw.) ata has been reported. Sim-Sim and Sérgio (2011) Brid. var. seriata (Mitt.) Kindb., Bih. Kongl. Svenska recorded it from Madeira. From North Africa it is Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 7(9): 255. 1883. ≡ P. fontana known from Morocco (Ros et al. 1999). However, subsp. seriata (Mitt.) Dixon, Stud. Handb. Brit. Mosses: the records from most southern stations need to 294. 1896. – LECTOTYPE (designated by Ochi 1962): be confi rmed. [Scotland]. In Britannia boreali in monte Ben-na-Bourd, W. Gardiner (NY, not seen). RANGE IN ASIA. Lindberg and Arnell (1890) For the typifi cation, see Koponen (2009, 2010a). repeated Mitten’s (1859) Latin description and 150 POLISH BOTANICAL JOURNAL 57(1). 2012 1998), but I have not yet seen specimens from these areas. Kürschner and Frey (2011) repeated the same information. However, Herrnstadt and Heyn (2004) excluded P. seriata from Israel. RANGE IN NORTH AMERICA. Dismier (1910, 1911) thought that Philonotis seriata is rare in North America, and Persson (1954) and Zales (1973) excluded it from continental North Amer- ica. I have not seen the voucher specimen from Greenland mentioned by Dismier (1907) who initially doubted this record (Dismier 1910), but later re-confi rmed it (Dismier 1912). I can confi rm the occurrence of P. seriata in Green- land after examination of the material so named from C. It should be added that some specimens under that name are P. fontana, and one specimen is Pohlia wahlenbergii (F. Weber & D. Mohr) Fig. 1. The range of Philonotis seriata Mitt. in Greenland. A. L. Andrews. reported the species from Siberia at Yenisei River. SPECIMENS FROM GREENLAND STUDIED: Julianehåb However, their vouchers seen by me are either distr.: Kangitsoq, Tupaussat, 60°20′N, 44°16′W, 1970, N. Jacobsen 9294, 9308; Angnikitsoq – Angnikitsup P. caespitosa Jur. or P. fontana (Hedw.) Brid. Mit- nuâ, 60°01′N, 44°02′W, 1970, N. Jacobsen 4099; Pa- ten’s (1859) publication misled Ochi (1962, 1963) miagdluk – Anordliuitsoq, 60°04′N, 44°16′W, 1970, N. to cite the type locality to be in India and to re- Jacobsen 9317. – Maukarneq, 60°01′N, 44°48′W, 1964, port P. fontana var. seriata widely distributed in C. Hansen & P. M. Petersen. – Angnikitsoq, Itivdlikasik, Japan. However, the Japanese specimens actually 60°06′N, 44°12′W, 1966, P. Gravesen & C. Hansen represent a different species, P. yezoana Besch. 66-988. – Kangerdlug, 60°13′N, 44°19′W, 1966, & Cardot, and P. seriata was excluded from Japan P. Gravesen & C. Hansen 66-755. – Qingua Valley, and Korea (Koponen 2009). 60°16′N, 44°31′W, 1964, P. M. Petersen & T. Smitinand Dismier (1912) and Kabiersch (1937) cited 64-067. – Kangerssuneq qingordleq, Ánivia, 60°19′N, 44°07′W, 1966, P. Gravesen & C. Hanasen 66-424. specimens from the NW Himalayas and Kashmir. – Tasermiut, head of the fiord, 60°32′N, 44°32′W, Koponen (2009) confi rmed them as P. seriata. The 2.VII.1964, C. Hansen, P.M. Petersen & T. Smitinand species occurs at high elevations in Tibet (Koponen (with P. fontana); Head of Tasermiut Fjord, 1964, 2010a) and Yunnan (X.-J. Li 80-217, H!) in China, T. Smithinand 23.370 (listed also in C. V. Starr Virtual but the specimens cited from southern provinces herbarium, NY). – Valley northeast of Sioralik, lower of China (Zang & He 2007) probably are based part, 60°44′N, 45°02′W, 1963, C. Hansen & K. Jakobsen on misidentifi cations (Koponen 2010a). 63-895. – Arsuk Fjord: Kungnât, 61°14′N, 48°30′W, Ignatov et al. (2006) reported Philonotis se- 1963, K. Holmen 63-613. riata from the Altai Mts., and I have seen speci- All specimens are in the Botanical Museum and Herbarium of the University of Copenhagen (C) unless mens from there (H, H-BR), and also specimens stated otherwise. from the Caucasus (H-BR). The details of these specimens will be given in a separate publication CONCLUSION. 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