The moss flora of the Badzhal Mountain Range (Khabarovsk Territory, Russian Far East)

Abstract

On the southern periphery of Badzhal Mountain Range on, an area of about 25 sq. km, we found 313 species of mosses, listed here with distribution along with the altitudinal belts, ecotopes, and substrates. Among them, 73 species are newly recorded for the middle part of Khabarovsk Territory, and 39 of them are new to the whole Khabarovsk Territory, including rare species with no or few previously known records in Russia such as Campylopus gracilis, Sematophyllum substrumulosum, Anomodon solovjovii, Bryoerythrophyllum chenii, Dicranum setifolium, Ditrichum macrorhynchum, Haplohymenium longinerve, Okamurea hakkoniensis, Orthotrichum rogeri, Sphagnum miyabeanum, S. subnitens; identity of several species needs in specially focused taxonomic studies. Studied flora is compared with ones of Zeysky State Nature Reserve, Upper Bureya, and a combined list of mosses of Botchinsky Nature Reserve and Tordoki-Yani Mt. Among all these floras, the proportion of Eastern species in Badzhal is the highest. Main types of vegetation and bryophyte ecotopes are briefly characterized; distribution of species along an altitudinal gradient among considered types of habitats and substrates, is discussed.