IRANIAN BRYOPHYTES COLLECTED MAY 1999
coll. by Barbara Ertter and Fosiee Tahbaz; det. by Dan Norris, Nov. 1999
- 21 May 1999 (with Fosiee Tahbaz)
Gorgan Province: Boboamen Park east of Bojnurd (halfway between Mashhad
and Gorgan);
limestone outcrop behind park, with grasses and scattered trees
- Aloina ambigua
- Grimmia commutata
- Pterigoneuron ovatum
- Syntrichia ruralis
- 21 May 1999 (with Fosiee Tahbaz)
Gorgan Province: mixed deciduous (Hyrcanian) forest along highway ca. 90
km east of
Azadshahr (ENE of Gorgan), in area of rocky cliffs and dense forest floor,
with abundant
bryoflora
- Brachythecium salebrosum
- Grimmia commutata
- Grimmia ovalis
- Homalothecium sericeum
- Leucodon sciuroides
- Orthotrichum affine
- Orthotrichum cupulatum
- Porella platyphylla
- Schistidium alpicola (2 collections)
- Syntrichia princeps
- Tortula marginalis
- 22 May 1999 (with Fosiee Tahbaz, N. Safaian, and M. Shokri)
Mazandaran Province: north foot of Alborz Mountains south of Sari, mesic
floor of mixed
deciduous (Hyrcanian) forest at edge of well-graded road.
- Anomodon rugelii
- Brachythecium rivulare
- Brachythecium salebrosum
- Conocephalum conicum
- Eurhynchium riparioides
- Homalia trichomanioides
- Homalothecium lutescens
- Homalothecium sericeum
- Pellia epiphylla
- Plagiomnium undulatum
- Plagiomnium rostratum
- Porella cordaeana
- Thamnobryum alopecuroides
- Same site as previous: old concrete wall at edge of roadside drainage
- Bryum argenteum
- Bryum caespiticium
- Bryum cirratum
- Dicranella varia
- Eurhynchium confertum
- Funaria hygrometrica
- Syntrichia muralis
- Tortula muralis
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24 May 1999 (with Fosiee Tahbaz)
Alborz Mountains above Reine, northeast of Tehran; 35° 52' N, 52°
06' E; rocky outcrops in open
slopes
- Grimmia hartmanii
- Syntrichia caninervis (2 collections)
- 29 May 1999 (with Fosiee Tahbaz) Fars Province: Persepolis (Takht-é Jamshid) northeast of Shiraz; gowing on rocks at entrance to Tomb of Artaxerxes on dry hillside