THE BRYOPHYTE FLORA OF BEREHOVE TOWN (TRANSCARPATHIA, UKRAINE)

Abstract

Berehove is the district center in the Transcarpathian region. The town is located within the Transcarpathian lowland, in the valley of the Tysa river. Its area occupies of 19 square kilometres where about 24 thousand population lives. At the beginning of the XX century, bryophytes of the Transcarpathians studied Polish, Hungarian and Czech botanists. After the Second World War, these studies continued Ukrainian researchers, namely M.P. Slobodyan, S.V.  Melnyk and others. In general, 27 species of bryophytes were known to our research.In 2018 and 2020, a modern bryofloristic study of Berehove was carried out. The botanical reserve «Ardov» was examined, as well as some parks and street plantations, where more than 80 packets of mosses were collected. As a result of the generalization of own and literary data in the town of Berehove and its surroundings, 71 species of bryophytes have been established, of which 5 species liverworts and 66 ones of mosses. Leading places in the spectrum of moss families occupy Brachytheciaceae, Pottiaceae and Orthotrichaceae. The richness of bryophyte species is observed mainly on natural and artificial rocky substrates, trunks of trees, after that – on the ground. In the botanical reserve «Ardov», a number of mosses are growing, which are not detected within the built-up part of Berehove. In this town, apart from widespread mosses, some rare in Ukraine species, namely Syntrichia latifolia, Dicranoweisia cirrata, Rhynchostegium megapolitanum are known.