{"title":"Prediction of Platycodon grandiflorus distribution in China using MaxEnt model concerning current and future climate change","authors":"Yuxin Shan, Zongran Lu, Lanmeng Yan, Emelda Rosseleena Rohani, Fangping Du, Zhiwei Fan, Rongchun Han, Xiaohui Tong","doi":"10.1111/njb.04502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04502","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Platycodon grandiflorus</jats:italic> has long been used for its medicinal, culinary and ornamental properties. With increasing market demand and the depletion of wild resources, understanding the distribution and factors affecting its habitat suitability is crucial for its conservation and sustainable utilization. This study aims to predict the suitable habitat for <jats:italic>P. grandiflorus</jats:italic> in China considering current and future climate scenarios. The MaxEnt model, with an AUC value of 0.846, demonstrated good predictive ability for the current and future distribution of <jats:italic>P. grandiflorus</jats:italic>. It also identified the central, eastern, and southern regions as suitable habitats, with the critical environmental factors being precipitation, temperature, and elevation. Future scenarios under both SSP126 and SSP585 projections indicate an increase in suitable habitats, particularly in northeastern and central China, albeit with a shift in the distribution center towards the northeast by 2041–2060 and 2081–2100 under different scenarios. <jats:italic>P. grandiflorus</jats:italic>' distribution is significantly influenced by environmental factors, with precipitation and temperature being pivotal. Taken together, our study predicts an expansion of suitable habitats under future climate scenarios and the northward shift in the distribution center underlines the impact of global warming on the distribution of <jats:italic>P. grandiflorus</jats:italic>. The findings are crucial for the conservation, effective utilization, and strategic planning for the cultivation of <jats:italic>P. grandiflorus</jats:italic> in the face of climate change.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vegetation dynamics 1946–2018 in an old‐growth conifer forest","authors":"Ingvar Backéus, Håkan Hytteborn, Håkan Rydin","doi":"10.1111/njb.04406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04406","url":null,"abstract":"We analysed ground vegetation in 250 plots in 2018 in the old‐growth <jats:italic>Picea abies‐</jats:italic>dominated forest Säby Västerskog, south‐east Sweden as a follow‐up of studies in 1946 and 1998 with the same layout of plots. The vegetation changes were not clearly directional: the species composition in 2018 was intermediate between that of 1946 and 1998, whereas in 1998 species richness was higher and with the unique presence of a number of species indicating small‐scale disturbances. <jats:italic>Vaccinium myrtillus</jats:italic> increased in cover since 1946 and <jats:italic>Avenella flexuosa</jats:italic> decreased. This goes against regional trends that have been attributed to nitrogen deposition. Regional changes are overshadowed by local dynamics.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The taxonomic history of Pilosella floribunda (Asteraceae), a common hybridogenous aggregate of central, northern and eastern Europe","authors":"Alexander N. Sennikov","doi":"10.1111/njb.04454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04454","url":null,"abstract":"The taxonomic history, nomenclature and application of one of the oldest species names in <jats:italic>Pilosella</jats:italic> are reviewed. <jats:italic>Hieracium</jats:italic> <jats:italic>floribundum</jats:italic> originally included a hybrid swarm with the participation of <jats:italic>Pilosella lactucella</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>P. caespitosa</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>P. praealta</jats:italic> and partly <jats:italic>P. officinarum</jats:italic>, and was interpreted either as a binary (<jats:italic>P. lactucella</jats:italic> × <jats:italic>P. caespitosa</jats:italic>) or triple (<jats:italic>P. lactucella</jats:italic> × <jats:italic>P. caespitosa</jats:italic> × <jats:italic>P. praealta</jats:italic>) hybrid. The original material of <jats:italic>H. floribundum</jats:italic> from Silesia, Poland includes plants of the triple hybrid which are designated as its lectotype in conformity with the usage of the species name that has been predominant during its history. The lectotype belongs to a morphotype in which the diagnostic characters of <jats:italic>P. lactucella</jats:italic> are dominant, and which is not typical of northern and eastern Europe. A further lectotype from the same hybrid complex is designated for <jats:italic>H. floribundum</jats:italic> var. <jats:italic>subcymosum</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pouzolzia friisii (Urticaceae, Boehmerieae), a new species from north‐east India","authors":"Amit Gupta, Mairaj Ahmad, Vijay Vishnu Wagh","doi":"10.1111/njb.04474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04474","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a collection housed at LWG (Herbarium of CSIR–National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India), collected by Singh et al. on 25 June 2017 from Nagaland state of India, <jats:italic>Pouzolzia friisi</jats:italic>i A.Gupta & V.Wagh sp. nov. (Urticaceae) is described and illustrated. The species resembles <jats:italic>Pouzolzia sanguinea</jats:italic> var. <jats:italic>fulgens</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>P. niveotomentossa</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>P. australis</jats:italic> in its serrated leaf margins and the indumentum on the abaxial leaf surface however, <jats:italic>P. friisii</jats:italic> is quite distinct in its grayish or pale yellowish indumentum, 4‐merous sessile male flowers and densely pubescent fruiting perianths without wings and ribs. A detailed description, illustration, distribution map, and information on ecology, as well as phenology are presented.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyppolite L. Aïgnon, Yu‐Guang Fan, P. Brandon Matheny
{"title":"Pseudosperma brunneopilosum, a new species of Inocybaceae from West Africa","authors":"Hyppolite L. Aïgnon, Yu‐Guang Fan, P. Brandon Matheny","doi":"10.1111/njb.04470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04470","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of <jats:italic>Pseudosperma</jats:italic> is described based on collections recently made in Benin in West Africa. <jats:italic>Pseudosperma brunneopilosum</jats:italic> sp. nov. occurs in forests dominated by ectomycorrhizal Fabaceae <jats:italic>Isoberlinia</jats:italic> and Phyllanthaceae <jats:italic>Uapaca</jats:italic> trees. Phylogenetic analysis of combined ITS‐LSU‐RPB2‐TEF1 gene regions shows that <jats:italic>P. brunneopilosum</jats:italic> is unrelated and distinct from several recently described species of <jats:italic>Pseudosperma</jats:italic> also from West Africa. Complete descriptions and illustrations, including photographs and line drawings are presented.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Leucoagaricus (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) from Swat, Pakistan","authors":"Hira Ijaz, Sadiq Ullah, Sana Jabeen","doi":"10.1111/njb.04459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04459","url":null,"abstract":"This study is based on the identification of the novel species <jats:italic>Leucoagaricus persicus</jats:italic> from Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The species is characterized by convex to broadly convex pileus with a dark reddish‐brown umbo and orangish‐red fibrils on white context. The basidiospores are ellipsoid to elongate, amygdaliform to ovoid (10.2–12.0 × 6.6–7.5 µm), and there are variably shaped cheilocystidia and pileipellis hyphae without clamp connections forming an intricate trichoderm. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic data based on ITS and LSU region of nrDNA separate <jats:italic>L. persicus</jats:italic> from all other known species in <jats:italic>Leucoagaricus</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141887014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boesenbergia kalakadensis sp. nov. (Zingiberaceae) from southern Western Ghats, India","authors":"Saravanan Thokuluva Santharam, Seventhilingam Kaliamoorthy","doi":"10.1111/njb.04445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04445","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Boesenbergia kalakadensis</jats:italic> (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Kalakad‐Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India is described and illustrated. <jats:italic>Boesenbergia kalakadensis</jats:italic> is closely allied to <jats:italic>B. rotunda</jats:italic> Mansf., and <jats:italic>B. tiliifolia</jats:italic> (Baker) Kuntze, but differs from them in its rhizome, leaves, inflorescence, length of flowers, glabrous nature of bract and bracteoles, length of calyx and corolla tube, size and shape of the corolla lobes, size, colour and margins of lateral staminodes, broader, orbicular, flat labellum, sessile, glandular hairy, crested anther, and length of style. A key to species of <jats:italic>Boesenbergia</jats:italic> in Peninsular India is provided.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robi Jose Aloor, Salish Johnson Menachery, Sreenivas Vadakkekkara, Lekshmi Arun, Arun Krishnankutty Nair, Valukattil Ponnachan Thomas
{"title":"Gongronema sasidharanii (Marsdenieae, Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae), a remarkable new species from Pambadum Shola National Park of Kerala and a new genus record for southern India","authors":"Robi Jose Aloor, Salish Johnson Menachery, Sreenivas Vadakkekkara, Lekshmi Arun, Arun Krishnankutty Nair, Valukattil Ponnachan Thomas","doi":"10.1111/njb.04377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04377","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Gongronema sasidharanii</jats:italic>, a new species of hitherto unknown genus of south India <jats:italic>Gongronema</jats:italic>, characterized by an urceolate flower and discovered in Pambadum Shola National Park is described and illustrated. Photographs, and detailed comparison with the allied species <jats:italic>G. napalense</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>G. ventricosum</jats:italic> are provided.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingmin Dai, Si‐Rong Yi, Yanshuang Huang, Hong‐Jing Zhang, Qiang Fan
{"title":"Viola fuscopurpurea (Violaceae), a new species from Chongqing, China","authors":"Jingmin Dai, Si‐Rong Yi, Yanshuang Huang, Hong‐Jing Zhang, Qiang Fan","doi":"10.1111/njb.04364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04364","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Viola</jats:italic> <jats:italic>fuscopurpurea</jats:italic> (Violaceae), a new species from Karst landform of Chongqing in China, is described and illustrated. The new species is most similar to <jats:italic>V. fukienensis</jats:italic>, but can be distinguished by nearly glabrous, shiny, adaxially purple blades (vs pubescent, adaxially green blades), brown seeds with conspicuous tubercles (versus yellow seeds with smooth surface), and hook‐like nectaries (versus triangular nectaries), as well as by general habit. Our phylogenetic analysis, based on ITS sequences, confirms that the new species belongs to <jats:italic>V</jats:italic>. subsect. <jats:italic>Rostratae</jats:italic>, and is most closely related to <jats:italic>V. fukienensis</jats:italic> in the phylogeny.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bufonia darvishii (Caryophyllaceae), a novel endemic species from Zagros Mountains, Iran","authors":"Amin Zeraatkar","doi":"10.1111/njb.04440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04440","url":null,"abstract":"A new subalpine species of <jats:italic>Bufonia</jats:italic> sect. <jats:italic>Longipedicellata</jats:italic> from the Zagros Mountains in west Iran is described and illustrated here. It colonizes mountain slopes with gravelly, stony, and scree substrates in one locality of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, preferably with a western and north‐west orientation, at elevations between 2700 and 3100 m a.s.l. The new species, <jats:italic>B. darvishii</jats:italic>, is diagnosed against the morphologically similar <jats:italic>B. macrocarpa</jats:italic>. The two species share similarities such as filiform and long pedicels, a lax panicle‐cyme inflorescence, distribution pattern of trichomes, and long peduncles. However, the new species stands out with semi‐shrub life form, its greater height, retention of the previous year's stems, cymes bearing more flowers, orbicular petals, larger petals, a broadly ovate ovary, larger sepals with more pronounced nervation, shorter pedicels, larger flowers, etc. <jats:italic>Bufonia darvishii</jats:italic> is proposed to be Critically Endangered (CR) following the guidelines of the IUCN.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}