2024
Over een 19e-eeuwse ontdekking van de gebroeders Buse: de eerste vondst van Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw. (Kruikmos) in Nederland
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Gorteria Dutch Botanical Archives , Volume 46 - Issue 1 p. 41- 52
In 1838, the young Dutch botanist L. H. Buse and his brother H. D. Gildemeester Buse found a colony of Splachnum ampullaceum (Cruet Collar-moss) with sporophytes on the moorland between Beekbergen and Loenen on the Veluwe (Province of Gelderland), south of the Beekbergerwoud. This was the first documented find of S. ampullaceum in the Netherlands. In 1840 they found this species again in the same area, now in the company of J. Wttewaall. The colony they found was richly provided with sporophytes. They collected a lot of material of this colony. Buse later included this collection as number 15 in his exsiccata series Musci Neerlandici. After 1840, S. ampullaceum was found a few more times in the Netherlands in the 19th century, but it remained rare. It even seemed that the species has become extinct in the Netherlands since 1910. However, the species was found again in 2010 in the Witterveld near Assen (Province of Drenthe). This was a colony of plants without sporophytes growing on cow dung. Splachnum ampullaceum belongs to the Splachnaceae and grows in Western Europe almost exclusively on dung of herbivores in moist habitats such as cow dung in wet moorlands and peat bogs. Spores of this moss are dispersed by flies. This article discusses the possible causes of the decline of S. ampullaceum in the Netherlands and neighbouring countries and also provides information about the first 19th century collectors of this moss species.
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M.J.H. Kortselius, & J.D. Kruijer. (2024). Over een 19e-eeuwse ontdekking van de gebroeders Buse: de eerste vondst van Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw. (Kruikmos) in Nederland. Gorteria Dutch Botanical Archives, 46(1), 41–52. |