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Title: | Riella helicophylla (Mont.) Hook., a new addition to the macrophytic wetland flora of the Maltese Islands (Bryophyta, Marchantiopsida, Riellaceae) |
Authors: | Lanfranco, Sandro Lanfranco, Edwin |
Keywords: | Plants -- Malta Wetland plants -- Malta Bryophytes -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 1999-06 |
Publisher: | The Central Mediterranean Naturalist |
Citation: | Lanfranco, S., & Lanfranco, E. (1999). Riella helicophylla (Mont.) Hook., a new addition to the macrophytic wetland flora of the Maltese Islands (Bryophyta, Marchantiopsida, Riellaceae). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist, 3(1), 13-14. |
Abstract: | The freshwater liverwort Rie/ia helicophylla (Mont.) Book. is recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands. A number of individuals were cultured following hydration of desiccated sediment collected from Ghadira s-Safra, a saline marshland situated on the north-eastern coast of Malta. Subsequent fieldwork has not revealed any field occurrences of the species in the Maltese Islands, indicating that this record may be due to a chance occurrence of viable spores in the sediment, possibly as a consequence of transport by means of migrating waterfowl. The apparent absence of the species in the wild may also be~ due to habitat degradation and to a sub-optimal physico-chemical environment. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14947 |
Appears in Collections: | CMN, Volume 3, Part 1 CMN, Volume 3, Part 1 Scholarly Works - FacSciBio |
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