Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia (Dumort.) Váňa & L.Söderstr.

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 : 39

2. Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia (Dumort.) Váňa & L.Söderstr.

Phytotaxa 112 (1): 10 (2013).

Cephalozia lunulifolia (Dumort.) Dumort, Recueil d’Observations sur les Jungermanniacées: 18 (1835).

SPECIMEN EXAMINED. — Collected from 42 points in Bartın, Bolu, Düzce, Karabük, and Kastamonu provinces.

ECOLOGY. — Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia is an acidophyte, hygrophyte and sciophyte species, wich colonizes on deadwood, humus soil, and among Sphagnum species (Dierssen 2001, Kürschner & Frey 2020). During the study, F. lunulifolia specimens were collected on mostly gymnosperm woody debris in pure or mixed forests mainly consisting of Abies nordmaninana subsp. equi-trojani, Pinus sylvestris and Fagus orienatalis ; with a few exceptions of Alnus glutinosa logs and stumps near the streams. All the woody material was moderately to well-decayed [stages 3 to 5, according to Ódor & Van Hees (2004)], form an altitude range between 850-2000 meters above sea level. In the study area, this species is mostly associated with (in alphabetical order): Buxbaumia viridis , Cephaloziella divaricata , Dicranum scoparium , Dicranum tauricum , Hypnum cupressiforme var. cupressiforme , Herzogiella seligeri , Isothecium alopecuroides , Lepidozia reptans , Lophocolea heterophylla , Plagiothecium curvifolium , Rhizomnium punctatum , and Riccardia palmata .

DISTRIBUTION. — Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia is a common species that has been recorded from European countries, also from Asia ( China, Iran, Japan and Turkey), North America ( Canada, and United States), and Russia ( Paton 1999; Potemkin & Sofronova 2009; Hodgetts & Lockhart 2020; Kürschner & Frey 2020).