Riccia crozalsii Levier

Papp, Beáta, Pantović, Jovana & Sabovljević, Marko S., 2019, Additions to the bryophyte flora of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (15), pp. 159-166 : 165

Riccia crozalsii Levier

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — From the road from Otoševo to Ohrid towards Asan Gura, karst plateau at the old ski lift at Suvo pole, soil among limestone rocks, 40°59’15.8”N, 20°52’01.8”E, 1500 m a.s.l., 16.X.2016, leg. Papp B. and Pantovi ć J. s.n., conf. Sérgio C., BP[BP 53206/H].

REMARKS

This species in Europe has mainly Mediterranean-Atlantic distribution ( Frey et al. 2006), reaching also central Europe ( Bischler 2004; Hodgetts 2015). It was known previously from the Balkans, namely Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro and European Turkey ( Sabovljević & Natcheva 2006; Ros et al. 2007; Hodgetts 2015). In the rest of the Mediterranean Region, it is only absent in Egypt, Jordan and Libya ( Ros et al. 2007). This is a generally rarely reported species all over Europe, due to its seasonality.