New and interesting moss records from Albania

Abstract

Albania still remains one of the least explored countries in SE Europe (Papp et al., 2010; Marka & Sabovljevic, 2011). In September 2011, the first author spent a short research period at the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest), where ca 200 moss specimens — collected in Albania during recent years — were investigated; a small number of the specimens investigated had been collected in a joint field trip made by all authors in October 2010. As a result, we report here thirteen moss species new to Albania. Moreover, most of the species reported are also significant because of their conservation status in neighbouring countries or in SE Europe as a whole. Including these 13 new records, the Albanian moss flora now consists of 356 taxa. In the species mentioned below, we provide the following information: locality, latitude, longitude, altitude above sea level, habitat details, voucher numbers; geographic elements according to Smith (2004) or as otherwise cited in the text; species occurrence in SE European countries according to Sabovljevic et al. (2008) or as otherwise cited; threat categories (mostly given in brackets beside country name) for SE European countries according to Sabovljevic et al. (2004) for Serbia and Montenegro, Natcheva et al. (2006) for Bulgaria, and Stefanuţ & Goia (2012) for Romania, respectively. The nomenclature of mosses follows Hill et al. (2006). The vouchers are deposited in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana (J. Marka collection, identified as JM below) and partly in the Bryophyte Herbarium of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (BP).