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No siinä ois tuorein lista Pohjoismaiden sammalista. Nauhasammalten taksonomia näyttää edelleen olevan it’s complicated -tilassa eikä tämäkään paperi ratkaise kysymystä, oliko isonauhasammalta siis varsinaisesti olemassa Euroopassa...
An annotated checklist of bryophytes of the Nordic countries https://bioone.org/journals/lindbergia/volume-2025/issue-1/linbg.025337/An-annotated-checklist-of-bryophytes-of-the-Nordic-countries/10.25227/linbg.025337.full
We present an updated checklist for all bryophyte species known to occur in the Nordic countries and list occurrences for each taxon from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Norway (mainland), Sweden and Finland. Altogether 1276 bryophyte species are included for the region. The checklist includes vernacular names in Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. The following new nomenclatural combinations are proposed: Scapania scandica var. parvifolia comb. nov., Andreaea alpina var. hartmanii comb. nov., Didymodon islandicus comb. nov., Ephemerum serratum var. stoloniferum comb. nov., Hygroamblystegium varium var. fluviatile comb. nov., Hygroamblystegium varium var. tenax comb. nov., Ptychostomum arcticum var. purpurascens comb. nov., Ptychostomum intermedium var. nitidulum comb. nov. and Ptychostomum warneum var. mamillatum comb. nov.
20/04/2025 - A Sunday morning stroll to the bottle bank again (I eat a lot of jam and those jars keep building up).
It's that time of year again when one of my favourite small things start to show, Common Liverwort. It just looks like it's from a different planet.
Two close up photos - Reproductive structures known as gametophores. Male gametophores on left, female gametophores right
This study highlights how bryophytes challenge our assumptions about genome evolution. Their ability to downsize genomes post-WGD suggests fascinating trade-offs between genome complexity, adaptability, and survival. (8/8)