{"title":"A new name for a hybrid Salicornia (Amaranthaceae)","authors":"C. Stace","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000013","url":null,"abstract":"In a radical new classification of Salicornia in Europe, Kadereit et al. (2012) placed the four British diploids (S. europaea L., S. ramosissima Woods, S. obscura P.W. Ball & Tutin and S. pusilla Woods) in a single species, S. europaea, the first three segregates in one and the fourth in a second subspecies (subspp. europaea and disarticulata (Moss) Lambinon& Vanderp. respectively). Inaddition, hybridsbetween these two subspecies (i.e. in the British context, between S. pusilla and S. ramosissima) were described as a nothosubspecies of S. europaea. These hybrids have been known in Britain for a century (Marshall, 1915), and were provided with three binomials (S. |marshallii, S. |townsendii, S. |bartonii, all nomina nuda) by Druce (1929), the epithet of the first being taken up by Kadereit et al. (2012). If S. pusilla and S. ramosissima are to be retained at species level, as in the forthcoming Hybrid Flora of the British Isles (Stace et al., 2015), the hybrid needs a new combination as a nothospecies:","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"25 1","pages":"147 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87260447","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, S. Jarvis, Kevin J. Walker, P. Henrys, O. Pescott, R. Marrs
{"title":"Common plants as indicators of habitat suitability for rare plants; quantifying the strength of the association between threatened plants and their neighbours","authors":"S. Smart, S. Jarvis, Kevin J. Walker, P. Henrys, O. Pescott, R. Marrs","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rare plants are vulnerable to environmental change but easy to over-look during survey. Methods are therefore needed that can provide early warnings of population change and identify potentially suitable vegetation that could support new or previously overlooked populations. We developed an indicator species approach based on quantifying the association between rare plants across their British ecological range and their suite of more common neighbours. We combined quadrat data, targeted on six example species selected from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland's Threatened Plant Project (TPP), with representative survey data from across Britain. Bayes Theorem was then used to calculate the probability that the rare species would occur given the presence of an associated species that occurred at least once with the rare species in the TPP quadrats. These values can be interpreted as indicators of habitat suitability rather than expectations of species presence. Probability values for each neighbour species are calculated separately and are therefore unaffected by biased recording of other species. The method can still be applied if only a subset of species is recorded, for example, where weaker botanists record a pre-selected subset of more easily identifiable neighbour species. Disadvantages are that the method is constrained by the availability of quadrats currently targeted on rare species and results are influenced by any recording biases associated with existing quadrat data.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"133 1","pages":"72 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86728930","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":"Scanning electron micrographs of leaves of British Carex species, 5. Subgenus Carex: sections Spirostachyae, Digitatae Mitratae Acrocystis Rhychocystis, Rhomboidales and Aulocystis","authors":"M. Proctor, M. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This part completes the large subgenus Carex, embracing sections Spirostachyae, Digitatae, Mitratae, Acrocystis, Rhynchocystis, Rhomboidales, Aulocystis. It opens with the section Spirostachyae, a natural group, related to Ceratocystis and to C. sylvatica; like these, they show minor variations on ‘the default caricoid leaf’. These are followed by section Digitatae, of which the core C. digitata and C. ornithopoda are closely related, five dry grassland sedges of varied affinities, C. humilis, C. caryophyllea, C. montana, C. ericetorum and C. pilulifera (the last three traditionally placed in the heterogeneous section Acrocystis). These are derived from at least four different lineages and all have their closest allies outside Europe. All have different upper-surface ornamentation. Finally, three distinctive species are included, which are the sole representatives of their sections in Britain and Ireland, C. pendula, C. depauperata, C. atrofusca. These are either isolated or omitted altogether in the DNA analyses to date.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"20 1","pages":"129 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78133254","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}
F. Valtueña, M. Dillenberger, J. Kadereit, A. Moore, C. Preston
{"title":"What is the origin of the Scottish populations of the European endemic Cherleria sedoides (Caryophyllaceae)?","authors":"F. Valtueña, M. Dillenberger, J. Kadereit, A. Moore, C. Preston","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cherleria sedoides L. (Minuartia sedoides (L.) Hiern) is a montane perennial which, with some species in Minuartia sect. Spectabiles, is more closely related to Scleranthus than to other Minuartia species and is therefore best restored to the reinstated and redefined genus Cherleria. Reconstruction of the ancestral area of the clade containing C. sedoides suggests that it evolved in the Alps or the Balkan peninsula. The species now has an unusual distribution, being present in the mountains of southern Europe and Scotland but absent from the Arctic. Three historical scenarios that might have led to the presence of the species in Scotland are outlined and tested by a molecular analysis comparing Scottish populations with populations from the Pyrenees and the Alps. The sampled populations show little variation in internal transcribed spacer (ITS)/external transcribed spacer (ETS) but much more in cpDNA. The latter reveals a major division between some Alpine material and the other Alpine, Pyrenean and Scottish plants. Once the anomalous Alpine haplotypes are excluded, Scottish populations are at least as variable as those from the Alps and Pyrenees, and are closely related to both. We conclude that they have not undergone a long period of isolation, nor have they originated by recent, long-distance dispersal from the Alps or Pyrenees. They appear to be derived from a metapopulation that was probably widespread at the last glacial maximum (LGM) and gave rise to the Alpine, Pyrenean and Scottish plants.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"93 1","pages":"13 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80471996","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":"Two new Scottish species of Hieracium (Asteraceae)","authors":"D. J. Mccosh","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two new species of Hieracium L. are described from Scotland: H. dolorosum D.J. McCosh and H. kintrawense D.J. McCosh. Both belong to section Vulgata (Griseb.) Willk. & Lange.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"27 1","pages":"32 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81783424","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":"Changes in the vegetation of clear-fells and closed canopy stands in an English oak wood over a 30-year period","authors":"K. Kirby","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The vascular plant ground flora of clear-felled and undisturbed oak stands were studied using 10 m × 10 m temporary and permanent plots over a 30-year period in a wood in southern England. Within the undisturbed stands, the mean species richness declined from 10 to 15 species per plot in 1981 to about five in 2012. The decline was correlated with a decrease in openness of the tree and shrub layer over this period. In the clear-fells, the species richness in the first two growing seasons after felling was 1.5 to 3 times higher than in the undisturbed stands. Ruderal species and grasses in particular increased, but some ancient woodland indicators (AWI) were present, even after a decade of openness. Change in the openness of stands appears to be a strong driver of ground flora richness up to about 50% cover; in more open conditions, competition and other processes within the ground flora assemblage may come to play a greater part. Forest management has played a key role in creating canopy gaps in small ancient woods in Britain but, in future, tree deaths from disease and extreme weather events are likely to increase in importance.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"12 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82410470","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":"Scanning electron micrographs of leaves of British Carex species, 4. Subgenus Carex: sections Paludosae, Porocystis, Atratae, Paniceae, Pachystylae, Glaucae, Ceratocystis and Strigosae","authors":"M. Proctor, M. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This part includes about a third of the large Subgenus Carex, embracing sections Paludosae, Porocystis, Paniceae, Pachystylae, Ceratocystis and Strigosae. These are mostly plants of unwooded habitats, although C. pallescens (section Porocystis) is often associated with woods, and C. sylvatica and C. strigosa (section Strigosae) are characteristically woodland plants. At least three of the sections in this part (Atratae, Paniceae, Ceratocystis) appear to be natural on morphological and molecular criteria. As in subgenus Vignea, micromorphology clearly differentiates between several species-pairs (acutiformis/riparia, panicea/vaginata, hostiana/flava-group), but makes only a limited contribution at sectional level. Carex pallescens is closely linked with C. acutiformis in molecular analyses. Carex filiformis seems to have its phyletic affinities with Paniceae rather than with Acrocystis. In Ceratocystis, C. hostiana is clearly marked off by its papillose lower leaf surface from the C. flava group which, though variable, appear to be substantially uniform micromorphologically. Carex sylvatica has a close link with Ceratocystis in molecular analyses. As in subgenus Vignea, many species, particularly in the flava group and Strigosae, show minor variations on a common pattern, the ‘default caricoid leaf’.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"23 1","pages":"45 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82421901","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":"Geum × convallis (G. macrophyllum × G. urbanum, Rosaceae): a new Geum hybrid from England","authors":"M. Wilcox","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new Geum L. hybrid, Geum macrophyllum Willd. × G. urbanum L., has been found in England and is here described as G. × convallis M.P. Wilcox. The holotype is described from the original site in Shipley Glen (Mid-west Yorkshire), but it has also been found in Rochdale (South Lancashire) and Wythenshawe Park (Cheshire). Previous and recent studies on Geum hybrids have shown that G. × convallis is highly sterile, contrasting strongly with our native introgressive G. rivale L. × G. urbanum L. (G. × intermedium Ehrh.). In 1959, G. macrophyllum × G. urbanum (G. × gajewskii Smejkal) was incorrectly described from Brno, in the Czech Republic. The diagnostic features of the new hybrid are described and illustrated.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"19 1","pages":"26 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86019309","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":"Some observations on the Carex muricata group with especial reference to the identification and definition of C. divulsa subsp. leersii (Cyperaceae)","authors":"R. Leaney","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A morphological study of Carex divulsa subsp. leersii is described. This work was prompted by recent finds of the taxon away from its presumed characteristic calcareous substrates, and by the fact that many plants had measurements outside the ranges given in standard descriptions. The study confirmed this to be so for inflorescence length, proximal inter-spike distance and especially for utricle length. Large values for the first two of these characters may have caused confusion in the past with subsp. divulsa and of the last with C. spicata, which also shares the broad leaves and robust, tufted habit of subsp. leersii. The importance of using only plants with mature fruits for identification is stressed, as immature fruits of subsp. leersii are paler and can be up to 0.5 mm shorter than the darker mature ones. Misidentification of subsp. leersii as other taxa in the C. muricata group has led to it being under-recorded, and adoption of the European concept of the taxon is recommended in order to remedy this.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"252 1","pages":"37 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82769363","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":"Polyploid wild service tree: first record of a triploid Sorbus torminalis (Rosaceae) in Britain","authors":"Tracey J. Hamston, Jaume Pellicer, Michael F. Fay","doi":"10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/2042349715Y.0000000006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The genus Sorbus L. is known for its complex taxonomy involving many polyploid species. However, Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz has long been assumed to be uniformly diploid. An analysis of DNA content using flow cytometry revealed a triploid individual within 0.5 km of tetraploid S. devoniensis E.F. Warb. at South Tawton, Devon. The leaf morphology suggests the novel Sorbus to be a spontaneous S. torminalis triploid rather than the result of interspecific hybridisation.","PeriodicalId":19229,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Botany","volume":"61 1","pages":"34 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79120817","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}