Abstracts, XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy) , 9-15

XIV OPTIMA Meeting, Palermo (Italy), 9-15 September 2013
Ex situ conservation of Mediterranean Bryophytes
WERNER O., ROS R. M.
Departamento de Biología Vegetal (Botánica), Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain. E-mail: rmros@um.es
Experiments have been carried out to establish the protocols for the ex situ conservation of four
threatened or rare Mediterranean moss species. They are: the endemic Canarian Orthotrichum handiense
F. Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka, listed as Endangered in the Atlas and Red Book of the Threatened
Spanish Bryophytes (Garilleti & Albertos 2012. Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Briófitos Amenazados de
España, Madrid); the central European, western Asian and Mediterranean Entosthodon hungaricus
(Boros) Loeske (= E. longicollis (Trab.) Ros & M.J. Cano nom. illeg.), considered as Near Threatened
in the Spanish Bryophyte Red List (Brugués & González-Mancebo 2012. In: Garilleti & Albertos,
Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Briófitos Amenazados de España, Madrid, pp. 25-42); the strictly
Mediterranean Entosthodon commutatus Durieu & Mont., reported mainly from isolated localities in
its distribution area, considered as Data Defficient in the Spanish Bryophyte Red List; Funariella
curviseta (Schwägr.) Sérgio, a more frequent Mediterranean species, considered as Endangered in the
Italian Bryophyte Red List (Cortini Pedrotti & Aleffi 1992. In: Conti & al., Libro rosso delle piante
d’Italia, Roma, pp. 559-637).
After in vitro culture of the four species cryopreservation tests were undertaken. The need for ex situ
conservation projects of bryophytes in the Mediterranean area is emphasized. The complementation of
the New Red Data Book of European Bryophytes that is in preparation by the ECCB taking in consideration
all the Mediterranean species is desirable in order to establish conservation priorities.
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