Ryszard Ochyra

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ub lis he d by M an ey P ub lis hi ng ( c) B rit is h B ry ol og ic al S oc ie ty Bryological Note New national and regional bryophyte records, 33 L T Ellis, H Bednarek-Ochyra, R Ochyra, B Cykowska, M V Dulin, T Ezer, R Kara, J R Flores, G M Suarez, C Garcia, A Martins, C Sergio, R Garilleti, M Kirmaci, E Agcagil, L E Kurbatova, M Lebouvier, B Papp, E Szurdoki, D A Philippov, V Plasek, T Pocs, M Sabovljevic, J Sawicki, M Sim-Sim, P Szucs, A Bidlo, J Vaňa, B Vigalondo, F Lara, I Draper, V M Virchenko, G J Wolski Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, Laboratory of Bryology, Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland, Institute of Biology, Komi Science Centre UB RAS, Komi, Russia, Nigde University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Nigde, Turkey, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Institucion Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina, Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciencia, Lisboa, Portugal, Departamento de Botanica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain, Adnan Menderes Universitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakultesi, Biyoloji Bolumu, Kepez-Aydin, Turkey, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, CNRS UMR 6553, Universite de Rennes 1, France, Botanical Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 12 I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Water RAS, Nekouz, Russia, Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Department of Botany, Eszterhazy Karoly College, Hungary, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, Department of Botany and Nature Protection, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural, Jardim Botânico, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Forest Site Diagnosis and Classification, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary, Department of Botany, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic, Departamento de Biologia (Botanica), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, Department of Lichenology and Bryology, Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, Deptartment of Geobotany and Plant Ecology, University of Łodź, Poland

New and rare moss species from subantarctic South Georgia

Forty-one species of moss are reported from the subantaretic island of South Georgia. Twenty-two of these are recorded for the first time from the island, namely Andreaea obovata Thed. (first record from the austral region), Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum (Hedw.) P.C. Chen, Bryum orbiculatifolium Cardot & Broth., B. subrotundifolium A. Jaeger, Campylopus introflexus (Hedw.) Brid., Cinclidium stygium Sw., Dicranoweisia mackayi (Broth. & Dixon) Broth., Ditrichum conicum (Mont.) Mitt., D. heteromallum (Hedw.) E. Britton, Drepanocladus longifolius (Wilson ex Mitt.) Broth. ex Paris, Funaria hygrometrica Hedw., Gymnostommum aeruginosum Sm., Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedw.) Z. Iwats., Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw.) Wilson, Meesia uliginosa Hedw., Orthodonthium lineare Schwagr., Schistidium antaretici (Cardot) L. Savicz & Smirnova, Tayloria dubyi Broth., Tortella fragilis (Hook. & Wilson) Limpr., Trematodon geniculatus Matteri, Warnstorfia exannulata (Schimp.) Loeske and W. fontinaliopsis (Mull. fiat.) Ochyra. The moss flora of South Georgia is currently estimated to comprise about 115 species.

Bucklandiella allanfifei (Grimmiaceae), a new moss species from New Zealand, with a note on South American B. striatipila

Abstract A new species, Bucklandiella allanfifei Bednarek-Ochyra, is described from New Zealand. The new species belongs to Bucklandiella Roiv. sect. Marginatae (Bednarek-Ochyra) Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra and is allied to southern South American B. striatipila (Cardot) Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra. Bucklandiella allanfifei is characterized by the smaller stature of the plants, mostly prostrate and profusely branched stems, most often with short, erect-ascending branchlets, shorter leaves, 1.5–2.1 mm long (without a hair-point) and anatomy of the costa which is reniform to crescent-shaped in cross-section and 3(–4)-layered in the proximal part. Additionally, the laminal cells are short-rectangular in the distal and median parts, (15–)20–30(–40) μm long, the basal marginal border is composed of 3–4 rows of hyaline, translucent, esinuose and rectangular cells, the innermost perichaetial leaves are longly pilose, the capsules are ellipsoid to short-cylindrical, 1.5–2.0 mm long and the setae are short, (2.2–)3.0–4.5(–6.0) mm. Bucklandiella striatipila is briefly assessed taxonomically and it is considered to be definitely distinct from B. crispipila (Taylor) Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra, a pan-tropical oreophyte, with which it was prematurely considered conspecific. Racomitrium integripilum Dusén, R. gemminatum Roiv. and R. substriatipilum Roiv. are reduced to synonymy with B. striatipila. Two new combinations are made: Buckladiella elegans (Müll. Hal.) Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra and B. pycnotricha (Müll. Hal.) Bednarek-Ochyra, Ochyra & Seppelt.

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New national and regional bryophyte records, 31 L T Ellis, A Alegro, H Bednarek-Ochyra, R Ochyra, A Bergamini, A Cogoni, P Erzberger, P Górski, N Gremmen, H Hespanhol, C Vieira, L E Kurbatova, M Lebouvier, A Martinčič, A K Asthana, R Gupta, V Nath, R Natcheva, A Ganeva, T Özdemir, N Batan, V Plášek, R D Porley, M Randić, J Sawicki, W Schroder, C Sérgio, V R Smith, P Sollman, S Ştefănuţ, C R Stevenson, G M Suárez, B Surina, G Uyar, Z Modrič Surina The Natural History Museum, UK, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy, Berlin, Germany, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland, Diever, The Netherlands, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Université de Rennes 1, France, 12 Ljubljana, Slovenia, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, India, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Cerca dos Pomares, Portugal, Public Institution, Croatia, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, Ludwigsstadt, Germany, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, St Anna Parochie, The Netherlands, Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy, Romania, Norfolk, UK, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina, University of Primorska, Slovenia, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey, Natural History Museum Rijeka, CroatiaDetermination of development priority of information system subsystems is a problem that warrants resolution during information system development. It has been proven, previously, that this problem of information system development order is in fact NP-complete, NP-hard, and APX-hard. To solve this problem on a general case we have previously developed Monte-Carlo randomized algorithm, calculated complexity of this algorithm, and so on. After previous research we were able to come into possession of digraphs that represent real-world information systems. Therefore, in this paper we will empirically analyze Monte-Carlo algorithm to determine how the algorithm works on real-world examples. Also, we will critically review the results and give some possible areas of future research as well.

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Fil: Suarez, Guillermo Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Tucuman; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman; Argentina

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folium and S. recurvum have similar ranges and ecology. In S. angustifolium the stem leaves are more triangular and rarely erose while the branch leaves are narrower and more strongly 5-ranked (McQueen & Andrus, 2006). Sphagnum recurvum also has narrower and more distinctly 5-ranked branch leaves than S. flexuosum, as well as a much more strongly differentiated stem cortex. In S. flexuosum the branch leaves are only slightly recurved when dry whereas in S. recurvum they are sharply recurved (McQueen & Andrus, 2006). Until now, none of these species of the European S. recurvum complex has been identified in the Azores.

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Feddes Repertorium 87: 188. 1976 [Euosmolejeunea cedercreutzii H.Buch & Perss., Commentationes Biologicae 8 (7): 9. 1941]. MADEIRA: on bark of moribund Erica, north side of Pico Topeiro, to east of Encumeada, ca 1150 m a.s.l., 8 April 2007, leg. T.L. Blockeel no. 36/102 (LISU, duplicate in Hb. Blockeel). AZORES: Terceira: in damp crevice of lava field, Misterio Negro, 10 km N.W. of Angra do Heroismo, UTM 75–87-, ca 650 m a.s.l., 15 July 1994, leg. J.W. Bates & R. Gabriel, no. 3498 (Hb. Bates); Terceira: on Laurus bark in steep forest, Terra Brava, about 1 km N.E. of Algar do Carvao, UTM 82–87-, ca 640 m a.s.l, 21 July 1994, leg. J.W. Bates & R. Gabriel, no. 3650 (Hb. Bates); Terceira: epiphyte on Juniperus in upper caldeira forest, Juncal, about 11 km N. of Angra do Heroismo, 22 July 1994, leg. J.W. Bates no. 3682 (Hb. Bates).

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ub lis he d by M an ey P ub lis hi ng ( c) B rit is h B ry ol og ic al S oc ie ty Bryological Notes New national and regional bryophyte records, 30 L T Ellis, H Bednarek-Ochyra, B Cykowska, R Ochyra, C Garcia, C Sergio, M Lebouvier, P Manolaki, E Giannouris, C Kadis, I Markova, B Papp, E. Szurdoki, D F Peralta, V Plasek, R Ristow, M Sabovljevic, M Sim-Sim, V R Smith, E Tsakiri, J Vaňa, V M Virchenko, O O Barsukov Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, Laboratory of Bryology, Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural, Jardim Botânico and Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Rua, Lisboa, Portugal, CNRS UMR 6553, Universite de Rennes 1, France, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece, Bohemian Switzerland National Park Administration, Pražska 52, CZ-407 46 Krasna Lipa, Czech Republic, Botany Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary, Instituto de Botânica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Parque da Ciencia Newton Freire Maia, Pinhais, Parana, Brazil, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, University of Belgrade, Serbia, Universidade de Lisboa, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal/Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Botany, University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa, Department of Botany, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Botany, Charles University, Czech Republic, Department of Lichenology and Bryology, Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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1. Anomobryum julaceum (P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.) Schimp. Contributors: H. Bednarek-Ochyra and R. Ochyra Îles Crozet: ÎLE DE LA POSSESSION: beginning of southern tributary of the river leading to Cirque de la Chaloupe, north of Grotte du Geographe, 46u259S 51u509E, 260 m a.s.l., rock in stream, associated with Bryum argenteum var. muticum, B. dichotomum, Blindia magellanica and Bucklandiella didyma, 20 February 1979, Bell 2505B (AAS, KRAM). Anomobryum julaceum is essentially a pan-Holarctic disjunct oreophyte which often penetrates into the tropics where it is fairly frequent at high elevations in the mountains, including Central and South America (Ochi, 1980), Africa (Ochi, 1972) and Malesia (Koponen & Norris, 1984; Eddy, 1996). In the temperate and polar regions of the Southern Hemisphere the species is almost absent and so far it has been recorded only once from Subantarctic Marion Island in the Prince Edward Islands archipelago in the Kerguelen Province of the Subantarctic (Ochi, 1972; Ochyra, personal observations). Nonetheless, this record makes A. julaceum a bipolar species with numerous intermediate stations in tropical mountains. Here, its range is expanded to the Îles Crozet archipelago in the same phytogeographical province of the Subantarctic which is situated over 1000 km to the east from the Prince Edward Islands. The moss was found to grow on rock in a stream, apparently in a moist habitat as evidenced by rather many cyanobacteria, intermixed with Bryum argenteum Hedw. var. muticum Brid.

Bucklandiella angustissima sp. nov. (Grimmiaceae), a New Austral Amphipacific Species with the Smallest Capsules and the Shortest Setae in the Genus

Abstract Bucklandiella angustissima Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra is described as a new species. It is known in Australasia from the southern cool-temperate zone of the South Island of New Zealand and its offshore islands including the Auckland and Campbell Islands, as well as subantarctic Macquarie Island, and in South America from the northern Andes of Ecuador. The new species belongs to Bucklandiella Roiv. sect. Emersae (Bednarek-Ochyra) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra and is allied to Australasian B. emersa (Müll. Hal.) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra. It is a saxicole readily distinguished from all its congeners in having very small, subglobose to ovoid or obloid capsules, 0.5–0.8 mm long, on fairly stout and very short setae, only 0.8–1.2 mm. These are the smallest capsules and the shortest setae in the large genus Bucklandiella. Additionally, the species has very short peristome teeth, 200–220 µm long, and a very narrow costa, 40–60 µm wide, with only two enlarged adaxial epidermal cells throughout its entire length. The taxonomic status of Racomitrium crispipilum (Taylor) A. Jaeger var. brevifolium Thér., which is known only in sterile condition from a single altimontane site in Ecuador, is briefly assessed and this variety is considered to be identical to Bucklandiella angustissima. Five new combinations are made: Bucklandiella subsect. Andicola (Bednarek-Ochyra) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra, B. subsect. Depressae (Bednarek-Ochyra) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra, B. depressa (Lesq.) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra, B. dichelymoides (Herzog) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra, and B. subcrispipila (Müll. Hal.) Bednarek-Ochyra et Ochyra. The latter name is neotypified.