{"title":"Restoration of broadleaved woodland under the 1985 Broadleaves Policy stimulates ground flora recovery at Shabbington Woods, southern England","authors":"K. Kirby, R. C. Thomas","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408177","url":null,"abstract":"Forestry policy and practice changes during the 20th Century led to major effects in the composition and structure of Shabbington Woods, southern England. Coppice-with-standards stands were clear-felled during the Second World War and replanted with conifer/conifer-broadleaved mixtures in which the conifer was dominant. Since 1985 broadleaves have been favoured. In 1983, the ground flora had been recorded in six plantation stands of different tree species and compared with three remnant broadleaved stands. Five 200 m2 quadrats were taken spread across each stand. The survey was repeated using the same methods in 2015 to assess changes. In addition, in 2015, single 200 m2 quadrats were taken in 21 other stands to put the re-recorded stands into a wider site context. In the nine re-recorded stands, six stands lost species (mean number of species per quadrat) between 1983 and 2015, only three stands gained them. Increases in species richness were associated with management (felling or thinning) or where stands had opened out through wind-throw. Species with higher Ellenberg light scores showed higher turnover than more shade-tolerant species. In stands recorded only in 2015 oak Quercus robur stands derived from formerly conifer-dominant crops, showed a similar richness and species profile to the remnant broadleaved stands. Specialist woodland plants did not appear to be adversely affected by this active management of the stands. The results indicate that in terms of the ground flora at this site the 1985 Broadleaves Policy achieved one of its aims of maintaining/restoring the special character of ancient woodland.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"144 1","pages":"125 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89677477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Hieracium sect. Pulmonarioidea occur in Scandinavia? Finding a place for species of the Depilata group","authors":"T. Tyler","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408178","url":null,"abstract":"The taxonomic position and evolution of the five Scandinavian montane species previously referred to the informal group Depilata of Hieracium are discussed. There is very little modern information about these species and as they have not been listed under any of the currently accepted sections of the genus they are at risk of being completely forgotten. They have always been considered as intermediate between H. sect. Alpina and sect. Prenanthoidea, but as discussed here they can hardly be included in either of these sections. However, C European species intermediate between the same two sections have been referred to H. sect. Pulmonarioidea and it appears appropriate to include the Depilata here as well. Hereby, the geographic range of H. sect. Pulmonarioidea is most significantly enlarged and its morphological circumscription is somewhat amended. The morphology of Scandinavian H. sect. Pulmonarioidea is described and a brief overview of the species and their distribution is provided. In addition, the possibility that the species concerned may have evolved in situ in Scandinavia through hybridisation between members of H. sect. Alpina and sect. Prenanthoidea is discussed.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"218 1","pages":"147 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74394186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new Flora of the Isles of Scilly","authors":"J. Edmondson","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"56 1","pages":"191 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79435439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. A. Abreu, Julie A. Hawkins, H. Cotrim, Michael F. Fay, O. Hidalgo, J. Pellicer
{"title":"Ophrys fusca and Ophrys dyris (Orchidaceae) – constancy of tetraploidy amongst populations in Central Portugal","authors":"J. A. Abreu, Julie A. Hawkins, H. Cotrim, Michael F. Fay, O. Hidalgo, J. Pellicer","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408185","url":null,"abstract":"Ophrys is amongst the best known orchid genera and is an established system for the study of pollinator-mediated floral evolution. Two species, Ophrys fusca s.l. and Ophrys dyris (= O. omegaifera subsp. dyris) belonging to Ophrys section Pseudophrys are the focus of this study. In the context of an integrative study of morphological and genetic diversity of O. fusca and O. dyris, genome size (GS) and cytotype diversity were surveyed from Portuguese populations. Flow cytometry methods were used to assess GS, and subsequently determine the ploidy level of 67 specimens, including the species and putative hybrids. Cytotypes were also confirmed based on chromosome counts from the roots of two specimens, one of each species. Constancy of nuclear DNA content (1C = 11.19 pg) and ploidy level (2n = 4x = 72, 74) was documented among all the individuals analysed. Implications are considered, in terms of interpreting the origin and predicting the persistence of putative hybrids.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"72 1","pages":"100 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90501902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"× Dactylodenia lacerta (Orchidaceae): a morphologically cryptic hybrid orchid new to science from the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall","authors":"R. Bateman, A. R. M. Murphy, B. G. Tattersall","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408189","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the first reported hybrid to occur in nature between Dactylorhiza praetermissa and Gymnadenia borealis as × Dactylodenia lacerta R.M. Bateman & Tattersall. This vigorous plant was found and digitally imaged on a roadside verge of Crousa Downs on the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall by Barry Tattersall in June, 2016, and tentatively identified as a hybrid new to science. However, detailed morphometric analysis using 40 characters and based partly on the initial images failed to confirm its hybrid origin, suggesting instead that it was a slightly deviant plant of D. praetermissa. Comparison of the hybrid with its putative parents by DNA sequencing of nuclear (ITS) and plastid (trnL-F) regions later confirmed the F1 hybrid nature of the plant, as well as identifying D. praetermissa as the hybrid’s ovule-parent and G. borealis as its pollen-parent. This result contrasted with prevailing theory that pollinators (in this case, most likely bumblebees) should preferentially transfer pollinaria from the shorter-spurred plant to the longer-spurred plant. The Crousa Downs plant is thus best described as a cryptic hybrid that shows strong maternal dominance in inheritance patterns, perhaps reflecting the fact that its ovule-parent is allotetraploid but its pollen-parent is diploid. A brief review of × Dactylodenia hybrids in the British Isles concludes that opportunities for the origin of this particular hybrid are severely limited by the contrasting habitat preferences and geographic distributions of its parents. An ongoing future for this apparently unique plant is unlikely due to local authorities’ inappropriately-timed mowing regimes.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"9 1","pages":"64 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79144023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on some Taraxacum (Asteraceae) from Ireland including description of four new species in section Celtica","authors":"A. Richards, D. Doogue","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408176","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of substantial recent collections of Taraxacum in the Irish Midlands, this paper records some additions to our knowledge of Irish dandelions. Four new species in Taraxacum section Celtica A. J. Richards are described, T. aesculosum, T. gaelorum, T. hibernicola and T. inclinorum; only the first is known outside Ireland, where the first three are quite widespread. Taraxacum pietii-oosterveldii H. Øllgaard, a relative of T. nordstedtii Dahlst., is newly recorded for Ireland from six Irish vice-counties; it also has not yet been recorded from Britain. The rare British wetland species T. anglicum Dahlst. and T. palustrisquameum A. J. Richards are recorded from Ireland for the first time, and the Spanish species, T. nietoi A. J. Richards, apparently extinct in Britain, has persisted in an Irish locality for 10 years. A new variety of T. ronae L. J. Margetts which lacks leaf spotting is described as var. immaculatum A. J. Richards; this variety seems more common in Ireland than the type. Taraxacum ronae is a common and widespread species in Ireland.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"76 2 1","pages":"136 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77302920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soapberry Sapindus sp. (Sapindaceae: Sapindoideae): drift endocarps from UK waters","authors":"D. Quigley, P. Gainey, C. Easton","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408187","url":null,"abstract":"At least 13 species of Soapberry (Sapindus spp.) are currently recognized worldwide. At least two species are considered to be native to North America: Wing-leaf Soapberry S. saponaria L. and Florida Soapberry S. marginatus Willdenow. However, some authors consider that both of these species are synonymous. S. saponaria has been widely distributed by man throughout tropical regions of Central and South America, including the Caribbean Islands, Africa, India, Asia and Australia. Some Sapindus diaspores (fruits and seeds) inevitably find their way into rivers and eventually float out to sea where they are dispersed by oceanic currents and a few occasionally reach NW European waters, most likely from the Caribbean region via the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift. The current review collates all known records of Sapindus endocarps found stranded in UK waters, including one previously unpublished record. Although the identification of Sapindus endocarps currently defy efforts to pin them down to species level, at least one the UK specimens was considered to be S. saponaria. Morphometric studies of Sapindus endocarps, combined with confirmatory genetic analyses, may help to resolve both the identity and provenance of drift endocarps found stranded in maritime regions on both sides of the North Atlantic.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"1 1","pages":"160 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72721377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Flora of Lanarkshire","authors":"Ian A. B. Strachan","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"46 1","pages":"191 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74480956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Smart, P. Henrys, Lisa Norton, H. Wallace, C. Wood, B. Williams, R. Bunce
{"title":"Changes in the frequency of common plant species across linear features in Wales from 1990 to 2016: implications for potential delivery of ecosystem services","authors":"S. Smart, P. Henrys, Lisa Norton, H. Wallace, C. Wood, B. Williams, R. Bunce","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408190","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, twenty-one 1 km squares recorded in Wales as part of the Countryside Survey of Great Britain were revisited. One hundred and thirty-seven quadrats alongside linear features that had all been recorded in the same place in 1990, 1998 and 2007 were re-found and the plant species compositions recorded. Changes in individual species frequency were analysed and the results summarised by a number of ecosystem services and one disservice whose delivery are linked to functionally important species being present. Results indicated a continuation of a trend towards increased shading and woody cover seen between the first Countryside Survey in 1978 and the last in 2007. Most species showed no significant change in frequency suggesting that the significant directional trend seems only to have impacted a subset of the species present. A greater sample size would be required to capture impacts on a larger number of species including a wider range of Common Standards Monitoring positive indicator species that may find refuge on the linear network in lowland Wales. Having grouped species by the ecosystem services they help deliver, we found that injurious weeds (an ecosystem disservice to food production) either declined or remained stable, a greater number of butterfly larval food plants decreased than increased and there was a net decline in potential nectar yield. Consistent with the successional trend, increasing species in these service-providing groups tended to be tall or shade-tolerant herbs and tree species. Decreasing species tended to be short, shade-intolerant forbs.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"12 1","pages":"112 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86829809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History and distribution of Sagina procumbens forma daviesii","authors":"P. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20423489.2017.1408192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20423489.2017.1408192","url":null,"abstract":"There have been occasional records of flore pleno forms of Sagina procumbens from Britain and Ireland for 200 years. Druce assigned these forms the varietal name var. daviesii, and a lectotype is designated here. A varietal rank cannot be maintained for this form, which becomes forma daviesii stat. nov. The records and observations on this variety are reviewed, including a new report from vc110 (Outer Hebrides), and the distribution is summarised.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"6 1","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88760978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}