Batan, Nevzat; Özcan, Osman; Ezer, Tülay; Erata, Hüseyin; Alataş, Mevlüt

Abstract: In this study, the epiphytic bryophyte vegetation of the Karçal Mountains (Artvin) in the Caucasus Region was investigated. Relevés collected from living tree trunks during various vegetation periods in 2022 were analyzed using the Braun-Blanquet method and multivariate analysis techniques. As a result, Anomodontetum attenuati-Ulotetosum crispae subass. nov. was described and characterised as a new epiphytic syntaxa. In addition, Orthotrichetum rupestris, Orthotrichetum speciosi, Uloto crispae-Orthotrichetum striati, and Anomodonto viticulosi-Leucodontetum sciuroidis-Anomodontetosum attenuati were determined for the first time in Türkiye. All syntaxa were presented by analyzing them in terms of their ecological and floristical classifications.

Erata, Hüseyin; Batan, Nevzat; Alataş, Mevlüt; Ezer, Tülay

Abstract: During the recent bryofloristic studies in the Karçal mountain of the Artvin region (Caucasus), north of Turkey’s East Black Sea region, Trematodon ambiguus and Ptychostomum cyclophyllum were found as new species to Turkey and Southwest Asia. Descriptions, illustrations, new localities, geographic distribution, ecological characteristics, and comparisons with morphologically similar taxa were provided.

Batan, Nevzat; Özcan, Osman; Özen-Öztürk, Öznur; Erata, Hüseyin; Alataş, Mevlüt; Ezer, Tülay

Abstrat: —Sphagnum russowii and Leptodontium flexifolium found as new to Turkey following a recent bryofloristic foray in Artvin region (Caucasus), from the East Black Sea region of Turkey and Leptodontium is the first record of the genus from Turkey. Descriptions, illustrations, a distribution map, ecological characteristics, and comparisons with morphologically similar taxa were presented.