Buxbaumia viridis (Moug. ex DC.) Brid. ex Moug. & Nestl.

Unan, Ayşe Dilek & Ören, Muhammet, 2021, New and noteworthy records of deadwood dwelling bryophyte species for Turkey and Southwest Asia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (4), pp. 33-44 : 38

1. Buxbaumia viridis (Moug. ex DC.) Brid. ex Moug. & Nestl.

Stirpes Cryptogamae Vogeso-Rhenanae 8: no. 724 (1823).

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Collected from 41 points in Bartın, Bolu, Karabük, and Kastamonu provinces.

ECOLOGY. — Buxbaumia viridis is an acidophyte, hygrophyte, and sciophte species, which primarily colonizes on well-decayed gymnosperm woody debris (Dierssen 2001; Smith 2004; Frey et al. 2006; Kürschner & Frey 2020), but several studies have shown that this species could also be found on acidic soil ( Crum & Anderson 1981; Can Gözcü et al. 2019; Deme et al. 2020).

During the study, all Buxbaumia viridis specimens were collected on moderately to well-decayed [3 to 5 according to Ódor & Van Hees (2004)] gymnosperm woody material (in 36 collecting points on Abies nordmanniana subsp. equitrojani , in 5 on Pinus sylvestris ), from pure or mixed gymnosperm dominated forests with an altitude range between 650-2000 m. a.s.l. In general, 1 to 5 visible sporophytes could be found on those woody materials, but on a few large ones, the number could go up to 25-35 sporophytes per log or stump. This species is mostly associated with (in alphabetical order) Brachyteciastrum velutinum var. velutinum , Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia , Cephaloziella divaricata , Dicranum scoparium , Dicranum tauricum , Hypnum cupressiforme var. cupressiforme , Herzogiella seligeri (Brid.) Z.Iwats. , Isothecium alopecuroides (Lam. ex Dubois) Isov. , Lophocolea heterophylla , Plagiothecium curvifolium Schlieph. ex Limpr. , and Ptychostomum moravicum through the study area.

DISTRIBUTION. — Buxbaumia viridis has a circumpolar distribution (Dierssen 2001). This species has been recorded from throughout Europe, also from China, Russia, United States, and Turkey ( Smith 2004; Ros et al. 2013; Hodgetts & Lockhart 2020).