{"title":"Germination of 10 midland plant species from the eastern Mediterranean Basin: effects of smoke, syringaldehyde, karrikinolide and cyanohydrin","authors":"Şükrü Serter Çatav, Kenan Akbaş, Yaren Fulya Kaplan, Ceren Kızıl, Betül Bürün","doi":"10.1111/njb.04457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04457","url":null,"abstract":"The beneficial effects of smoke and its constituents, karrikinolide (KAR<jats:sub>1</jats:sub>) and cyanohydrin glyceronitrile, on the germination of Mediterranean lowland species are well‐documented. However, very little is known about the role of these signals on the germination of plants at higher altitudes. In addition, lignin‐derived chemicals, such as syringaldehyde (SAL), have recently been proposed as overlooked cues for smoke‐induced germination. To address these gaps in the literature, we investigated the effects of smoke‐water and SAL on the germination of 10 midland species growing on serpentine soils. We also sought to determine whether SAL interacts with KAR<jats:sub>1</jats:sub> and/or mandelonitrile (MAN, a cyanohydrin) to enhance seed germination. The results show that smoke‐water significantly improved the germination of three species (<jats:italic>Barbarea duralii</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Digitalis cariensis</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Turritis laxa</jats:italic>). SAL, on the other hand, had no positive effect on the germination of the 10 species tested. Furthermore, three smoke‐sensitive species and <jats:italic>Verbascum cariense</jats:italic> responded to KAR<jats:sub>1</jats:sub> and/or MAN. Finally, SAL did not exert any synergistic effects on germination in interaction with KAR<jats:sub>1</jats:sub> and MAN. In conclusion, we provide evidence that smoke is an important germination cue also for Mediterranean midland species. Moreover, SAL did not play a role in stimulating germination in smoke‐sensitive species, either independently or in combination with other smoke chemicals.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771694","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":"Stereochilus linearifolius (Orchidaceae): a new species of Orchidaceae (Epidendroideae: Vandeae: Aeridinae) from Yunnan, China","authors":"Pengyu Wu, Yutian Zhang, Qiantong Shan, Zhoudong Han, Ziyang Wang, Yajuan Lou, Xinyuan Qin, Zhifeng Xu","doi":"10.1111/njb.04452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04452","url":null,"abstract":"A newly discovered species, <jats:italic>Stereochilus linearifolius</jats:italic> (Vandeae, Orchidaceae), which was found in Maguan (Yunnan Province, China), is described and illustrated. Detailed morphological examination revealed that <jats:italic>S. linearifolius</jats:italic> exhibits similarities to <jats:italic>S. dalatensis</jats:italic>, however, it distinguishes itself in terms of plant size, leaf dimensions (length and width), sepal width, spur shape, midlobe shape, as well as the coloration of lip, anther cap and stigma.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771590","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":"Tzveleviochloa uniyalii comb. nov. (Poaceae, Aveninae): taxonomic status and an update on distributions in India","authors":"Dileshwar Prasad, Smita Tiwari, Sangam Sharma, Rekha Yadav, Priyanka Agnihotri","doi":"10.1111/njb.04349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04349","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Helictotrichon uniyalii</jats:italic> corresponds to the genus <jats:italic>Tzveleviochloa</jats:italic> based on the lemma apex, lodicules, and ovary morphological features. Therefore, here, a new combination, <jats:italic>Tzveleviochloa uniyalii</jats:italic>, is proposed. In addition, we have provided amended descriptions, taxonomic notes, habitat, and distributional range updates with a new record of the flora of Himachal Pradesh, illustration, and color photographs.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141785168","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":"Plant ecotypes in the 21st century: from local adaptation to speciation and conservation","authors":"Stefan Andersson, Renate A. Wesselingh","doi":"10.1111/njb.04547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510816","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":"Two new species of wild ornamental Musa (Musaceae) from Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India","authors":"Simanta Taid, Sorokhaibam Sureshkumar Singh, Padma Raj Gajurel","doi":"10.1111/njb.04271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04271","url":null,"abstract":"Two new species of ornamental banana, namely <jats:italic>Musa siangensis</jats:italic> Taid, S.S. Singh et Gajurel and <jats:italic>Musa bracteata</jats:italic> S.S. Singh, Gajurel et Taid collected in Arunachal Pradesh, India, are described. Morphologically, both the new species are close to <jats:italic>Musa arunachalensis</jats:italic> A. Joe, Sreejith et M. Sabu. Morphological characters are described and illustrated with colour photographs for easy recognition. A key to the closely related species and a table of comparison enumerating selected morphological characters are also provided. The new species are further supported by molecular <jats:italic>rbc</jats:italic>L sequence data.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530229","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}
Yong‐Yan Liang, Jie Huang, Hai‐Ling Chen, Chun‐Rui Lin
{"title":"Aspidistra shangsiensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China","authors":"Yong‐Yan Liang, Jie Huang, Hai‐Ling Chen, Chun‐Rui Lin","doi":"10.1111/njb.04212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04212","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Aspidistra shangsiensis</jats:italic>, a new species of Asparagaceae from southern Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to <jats:italic>A. hainanensis</jats:italic> in the flower color and shape, but differs by the leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 28–45 × 4.0–6.5 cm, perianth lobes 8–10, stigma upper surface with fine radial grooves distally. This new species is only known from Shangsi County in Guangxi, China.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510817","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":"Psammogeton raniae‐magotrae sp. nov. (Apiaceae) from Jammu and Kashmir, India","authors":"B. L. Bhellum","doi":"10.1111/njb.04176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04176","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of <jats:italic>Psammogeton</jats:italic> (Apiaceae) found in Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, is described and illustrated. It is closely allied to <jats:italic>Psammogeton canescens</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>P. shivalikensis</jats:italic> but differing from them in having noticeably radical and deeply ternate leaves, with acuminate apex, peduncle 1–3 cm long, nearly smooth or faintly ribbed, flowers dull white or pale yellow, an elongated stylopodium, fruits with hair that is nearly twice the fruit width. Together with the images, a distribution map and comparative account with morphological and phenological details of closely related <jats:italic>P. canescens and P. shivalikensis</jats:italic> are provided<jats:italic>.</jats:italic> Keys to all five species are also included.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"176 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510851","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}
Mingyue Zhou, Melanie S. Montes, Tore Mattsson, Tomas Burén, Mikael Hedrén, Ulf Ryde
{"title":"Rubus wahlbergii and related species in Sweden","authors":"Mingyue Zhou, Melanie S. Montes, Tore Mattsson, Tomas Burén, Mikael Hedrén, Ulf Ryde","doi":"10.1111/njb.04373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04373","url":null,"abstract":"We studied <jats:italic>Rubus wahlbergii</jats:italic> and related species in <jats:italic>R.</jats:italic> sect. <jats:italic>Corylifolii</jats:italic>, primarily in Sweden, using DNA microsatellites. The results show that the material can be divided into three species: <jats:italic>R. wahlbergii</jats:italic> s.s. which occurs along the Swedish coast from Bohuslän to Uppland, <jats:italic>R. nordicus</jats:italic> which occurs on the western coast all the way south to north‐western Skåne, and a previously unrecognized taxon which we here describe as <jats:italic>R. wahlbergioides.</jats:italic> The latter has scattered localities in Halland, Skåne, Blekinge, Öland and Småland, but is common around Kivik in Skåne and Kalmar in Småland. It is characterised by leaves that are without felt underneath, terminal leaflets with a somewhat more triangular shape and coarser serration than those of <jats:italic>R. wahlbergii</jats:italic> and also has more glands on the stem and the inflorescence. In the northern part of the distribution, <jats:italic>R. nordicus</jats:italic> is easily distinguished morphologically from <jats:italic>R. wahlbergii</jats:italic>, e.g. by a strong tendency to form 7‐foliolate leaves, but in Skåne and Halland, the two species are harder to distinguish. Still, genetically <jats:italic>R. nordicus</jats:italic> is more similar to <jats:italic>R. sordirosanthus</jats:italic> than to <jats:italic>R. wahlbergii</jats:italic> s.s.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510852","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}
Han‐Wen Huang, Zi‐Yi Wang, Si‐Yuan Zeng, Qi‐Yi Yang, Rong Li
{"title":"Iris luojiensis (Iridaceae), a new species from southwest China","authors":"Han‐Wen Huang, Zi‐Yi Wang, Si‐Yuan Zeng, Qi‐Yi Yang, Rong Li","doi":"10.1111/njb.04389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04389","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Iris luojiensis</jats:italic> Z.Y. Wang, H.W. Huang and R. Li sp. nov. from southwest China is described and illustrated. This species occurs on shrub slopes in mountainous regions of southwest China. <jats:italic>Iris luojiensis</jats:italic> is morphologically similar to <jats:italic>Iris japonica</jats:italic> Thunb., <jats:italic>Iris calcicola</jats:italic> Z. C. Lu, Z.P. Huang and Yan Liu and <jats:italic>Iris wattii</jats:italic> Baker, but easily distinguished from them by its bluish‐violet flowers, 3–6 flowering‐stem branches, leaf size, particularly the upper leaves, and by only having two to three (seldom one) flowers per bract. A phylogenetic analysis based on the complete plastid genome supports the separation of <jats:italic>I. luojiensis</jats:italic> from other morphologically related species. According to morphological and molecular evidence, <jats:italic>I. luojiensis</jats:italic> can be placed in the <jats:italic>I.</jats:italic> sect. <jats:italic>Lophiris</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510854","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}
Dymphna Wiegmans, Keith Larson, Jan Clavel, Lore Hostens, Jasmine Spreeuwers, Amber Pirée, Ivan Nijs, Jonas J. Lembrechts
{"title":"Historic disturbance events overruled climatic factors as drivers of ruderal species distributions in the Scandinavian mountains","authors":"Dymphna Wiegmans, Keith Larson, Jan Clavel, Lore Hostens, Jasmine Spreeuwers, Amber Pirée, Ivan Nijs, Jonas J. Lembrechts","doi":"10.1111/njb.04382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04382","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary interaction of climate and disturbance drives vegetation composition and species distribution shifts, making their respective roles difficult to disentangle. This study describes the long‐term ruderal plant species distributions along the ‘Rallarvägen' in Abisko, subarctic Sweden. This trail currently serves as a hiking trail but was initially created as a construction road for a railroad from 1898 to 1903 and is paralleled by the E10 Highway since 1982.Using vegetation and climate data from 1903, 1913, 1983, and 2021, we found that warm‐adapted ruderal plant species were common along the Rallarvägen shortly after railroad construction in the early 20th century. Interestingly, many of these native and non‐native ruderals with relatively high temperature affinity that were present in 1903 and 1913 have since disappeared and have not reappeared, despite the substantial increase in regional temperature in recent decades.In addition, the historical disturbances have had long‐lasting effects on the current spatial distribution of the ruderal vegetation. Most ruderals still reside close to the railroad tracks and are progressively filtered out with increasing distance from anthropogenically disturbed introductory points, such as train stations, where they peak in species richness – a process we term ‘horizontal directional ecological filtering', in parallel to the established concept of ‘directional ecological filtering' along elevational gradients.The historical record of ruderal plant species in the region, influenced by a century‐old railroad construction, emphasizes the importance of knowing a system's disturbance history for understanding current vegetation dynamics and anticipating its future in a changing climate.","PeriodicalId":54716,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Botany","volume":"203 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510814","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}