Entosthodon muhlenbergii (Turner)

Schäfer-VERwIMP, Alfons & VERwIMP, Inge, 2019, On a bryophyte collection from the Maltese Islands, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (4), pp. 19-29 : 25

Entosthodon muhlenbergii (Turner)

REMARKS

Fife is known from Malta only by some old records ( Baur 1891; Sickenberger 1892, as Funaria calcarea ; Bottini, 1907, as F. mediterranea + var. patula ; Sommier & Caruana Gatto, 1915) and its occurrence there should be confirmed. It is a more northern species penetrating the Mediterranean region only as far as Rome, with a single locality at high altitude in Turkey ( Crundwell & Nyholm 1974). In the Iberian Peninsula, E. muhlenbergii is restricted to altitudes above 1000 m ( Brugués & Ruiz 2010). Its occurrence on the Maltese Islands seems unlikely. Evaluated as “data deficient” by Hodgetts (2015).