Ayhan Senkardesler

The Hungarian lichenologist Ödön Szatala described 169 species and infraspecific taxa, with a majority of these being based on his own collections. He also described taxa from material sent to him for identification. In this study, original material for 27 names (Aspicilia latiloba, A. microspora var. astroidea, A. microspora var. insensibilis, A. subpercaena, Bacidia rhodi, Buellia samothrakiana, Catillaria lenticularis var. transsilvatica, C. servitii, C. zsakii, Dermatocarpon fuscatum, Diplotomma alboatrum var. virescens, Lecania nylanderiana var. ochracea, Lecanora atra var. aegaeica, L. cengiae-samboae, L. rhodi, Lecidea aegaeica, L. aegaeica f. acrustacea, L. aegaeica f. albida, L. aegaeica var. verruculosa, L. euphorea f. decussata, L. iranica, L. stigmatea f. armeniaca, Pertusaria baskalensis, Physcia grisea var. elbursiana, Placodiella olivacea var. stampaliana, Porina rechingeri and Verrucaria filarszkyana) of taxa described by Szatala and based on material collected by others from Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine was examined, and lectotypes were chosen. In addition, Catillaria servitii has been found to be the earliest name for C. praedicta.

Theodor Kotschy collected lichens during his plant collecting activities in Turkey about 150 years ago. Most of the lichens belonging to this collection have been published. In the present study, the missing unpublished specimens of this collectin were listed, and comments on such invalid names as Aspicilia taurica Haszl. Cetraria bulghardaghensis Haszl., Imbricaria flavescens Haszl. and Pertusaria taurica Haszl. were provided.

In this review, impressions and information about some participated lichenologists, symposium program and some noteworthy topics concerning with the 7th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology (9–13 January 2012) are briefly summarized. In addition, the general meeting is shortly discussed.
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Cladonia trapezuntica J. Steiner (lichenized fungi, Ascomycetes) rediscovered recently, was first described from North Turkey in 1909 and was never reported after. This species was collected by Handel-Mazzetti on mosses from Eseli village, which was evacuated several decades ago; today, this village is neither known from current maps nor by the local population. Cladonia trapezuntica is similar to Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M. Dufour, but it differs 1) in its cushion-like growing form of the thallus, 2) by its rather temporary primary thallus (usually it is continuous in P. papillaria), and 3) in its growth on metal rich soil, which is rich in iron oxide followed by calcium phosphate hydroxide hydrate, calcium carbonate and barium aluminium silicate. Despite of more than 430 papers published about lichens collected from Turkey, P. papillaria is not known from the country. From this reason, ecology, distribution (rarity) and taxonomy of C. trapezuntica were studied for conservational purposes. This study was supported by The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Project number 10051505.

Taxonomic studies based on type material are difficult if the deposition of types are not known correctly. In the case of Ödön Szatala’s type specimens, several mistakes on their typification were made, since deposition of many type specimens were unknown. Ödön Szatala was usually thought to be working in his whole scientific life in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (BP). Despite of this, he was working in BP only during his last five years before his death in 1958. More than 80% of his papers were published before his time at the museum. Prior to this, he was working as an internationally respected expert on seed testing in the Royal Hungarian Experimental Institute for Seed Testing and in various stations of the same company situated in several cities. Most of 72 new lichen species, 26 new varieties and 71 new forms, described by him based on different collections, were introduced to lichenology during this period. The main problems are caused by those taxa, because the protologues do not provide any internal evidence concerning on the deposition of type materials. In this poster, we would like to present Ödön Szatala’s career and share our results on his type specimens deposition. These specimens were mainly deposited in BP and W, however, other herbaria (e.g. B, CL, GB, GZU, LBL, M) could also keep some of these original materials, while no types has been seen in WU (except the isotypes in exsiccate Lichenotheca parva). A total of 49 critical taxa described by O. Szatala will be discussed here. This study was supported by SYNTHESYS AT-TAF-3435& HU-TAF-1103 and OTKA K81232.

In this investigation, The presence and the distribution of the blue-green algae (11 taxa; Lyngbya nordgaardii Wille, Microcoleus chthonoplastes (Merttens) Zanardini, Schizothrix tenerrima (Gomont) Drouet are new record for the Turkish Black Sea shores), red algae ( 93 taxa), brown algae (27 taxa), green algae (26 taxa) and sesgrasses (4 taxa, Roppia maritima L. is new record for the Turkish Seas) was identified in the upper infralittoral zone of Ordu (Blacksea Sea) shore of Türkiye. A total 164 taxa were determined.

An air quality study using the IAP method has been carried out in the Karaburun Peninsula. The survey area was divided into 91 units, which were analysed for the frequency of epiphytic lichens on olive trees ( ). IAP values ranged between 0-39.75 and they were classified into nine categories to produce an air quality map. The seashore was recognized as free of epiphytic lichens substantially because of the maritime effect. Finally, availability of olives as phorophyte in bioindication studies was discussed and a list of 16 indicator species has been suggested for the study area.

In this study, lichen collections of J. Andrasovszky, H. Dingler, I. Györffy de Szigeth, K. Krause, J. Mattfeld, M. F. Nabelek, V. Pietschmann and S. Selinka from Turkey deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum have been investigated and compared with Szatala’s publications. After this reassessment, 178 infraspecific taxa were determined. Moreover, 29 unpublished specimens were discovered. In addition, the collecting localities, which are positioned in cities such as Bursa, Düzce, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Kırklareli, Konya, İstanbul, İzmir, Sakarya, Trabzon, Van and Zonguldak, are discussed, and a map of these localities is provided.

In this study, lichens collected from the Turkish provinces Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Denizli, Edirne, Erzurum, Isparta, İzmir, Kocaeli, Kütahya, Mugla, Nevşehir, and Niğde by V. Vašák are listed. A total of 74 species is discovered in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Usnea rubicunda is reported new to Turkey, and 36 new records are given to 14 provinces.

Rinodina poeltii, Mayrhofer’in revizyon çalışması sonucunda (1984) Siirt’ten tanımlanmış bir likendir. Hipotesyumunda da askosporları bulunan bu tür, Türkiye’den daha sonra Breuss ve John (2004) tarafından Gaziantep’ten ve Şenkardeşler (2006) tarafından Denizli’den tekrar rapor edilmiştir. Bu çalışmada, apotesyumdan alınan kesitlerle, sadece Türkiye’den ve Suriye’den bilinen bu türün tayinini kolaylaştırıcı anatomik özellikler sunulmaktadır.

This study was carried out in Denizli province, which lies in south western of Türkiye. A total of 167 lichen and lichenicolous infrageneric taxa were reported. Aspicilia recedens (Taylor) Arnold, Cladonia strepsilis (Ach.) Grognot and Moelleropsis nebulosa (Hoffm.) Gyeln. are new to Turkey whereas 140 species are new to Denizli province.

Problems of Caulerpa Lamour. (Caulerpaceae, Caulerpales) of Türkiye  and will be take measures were studied in this investigation. Six taxon belonging to genus were determined in Türkiye shores. C. sertularioides were found in the Marmara Sea. Another taxa (C. ollivieri Dostal, C. prolifera (Forsskål) Lamour., C. racemosa (Forsskål) J. Ag. var. racemosa ( * C. feldmannii Rayss et Edelstein), C. racemosa (Forsskål) J. Ag. var. lamourouxii f. requenii (Mont.) Weber van Bosse , C. scalpelliformis (Brown) ex Turn.) C.Ag.,) are distribute in the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea.

In this investigation, the presence and the distribution of the blue-green algae (21 taxa), red algae (106 taxa), brown algae (27 taxa), green algae [20 taxa, one of them is new record for the marine flora of Turkey, (Cladophora vagabunda (Linnaeus) Van Den Hoek)] and sesgrasses (3 taxa) was identified in the upper infralittoral zone of Samsun (Blacksea Sea) shore of Turkey. A total 177 taxon was determined.

The presence and the distribution of the blue  green algae, red algae, brown algae, green algae and marine phanerogams were studied in the Dardanellen (Marmara Sea, Türkiye). 416 seaweeds and four seagrasses were determined in the study. These were distributed as 43 taxa of Cyanophyceae, 210 taxa of Rhodophyceae, 90 taxa of Fucophyceae, 73 taxa of Chlorophyceae and four species of  seagrasses. A total of 420 taxa was determined. 32 of them are newly recorded for the Dardanellen and  Marmara Sea. Colpomenia peregrina Sauvageau (Fucophyceae) is new record for Turkish marina.

The levels of endogenous abscisic acid and total polyamine contents (putrescine and spermidine) were studied in two lichen species differing in desiccation tolerance. ABA and polyamine contents showed significant differences between air-dried and water-treated thalli of Pseudevernia furfuracea and Ramalina farinacea. The levels of putrescine (put) and spermidine (spd) in water-treated P. furfuracea thalli were found higher than in dry samples. The values for spd were almost threefold and for put almost 1.4-fold higher than in airdried samples. The levels of put and spd in water-treated R. farinacea were lower than in the air-dried samples. The lowest values for spd and put were almost 33-fold and 2.8-fold less, respectively. ABA contents of watertreated P. furfuracea and R. farinacea increased by 2.65% and 25.5% when compared with air-dried thallus.

Buellia leptina was described from the Canary Islands and is a forgotten name that applies to a species of the genus Diploicia A. Massal. under current generic concepts because of its characters such as rosette-forming and pruinose thallus with distinctly elongated marginal lobes, chlorococcoid photobionts, apothecia without a thalline exciple, Lecanora-type 8-spored asci, plurilocular, brown and ellipsoid ascospores. Initial reference of the deposition of the type specimen of B. leptina is missing in the original publication (Steiner, l.c.). However, Julius Steiner’s home institutions were Vienna University (WU) and Natural History Museum in Vienna (W). The first author has checked for type materials of names of taxa described by J. Steiner housed at W and WU. After diligent searches over a period of five months (supported by TUBITAK and SYNTHESYS, respectively) only one specimen belonging to B. leptina was seen. This is deposited together with Caloplaca gomerana J. Steiner and the hard lava rock is covered by a mosaic of Buellia and Caloplaca thalli. Buellia leptina was probably overlooked and not included in earlier revisions because this specimen was sorted alphabetically under the name C. gomerana, and not separately as B. leptina. This single specimen is considered as the holotype and the name was reduced to synonymy by Şenkardeşler (in Lichenologist 42: 439–448. 2010), since its morphological and anatomical characters agree well with Diploicia subcanescens (Werner) Hafellner & Poelt (in Herzogia 5: 59. 1979) based on Buellia subcanescens Werner (l.c.). T his basionym was published in 1956 with the specimen cited above as holotype, while B. leptina was published more than f ive decades earlier, and thus has priority over the widely adopted name Diploicia subcanescens, according to Art. 11.4 of the ICBN. However, the name Buellia leptina seems never to have been accepted since its original publication. It has also not been included under any name in the regional checklist or in local flora list of the Canary Islands (Hafellner in Fritschiana 5: 1–132. 1995). On the other hand, Diploicia subcanescens is an uncontested species name in current use, known from France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Yemen, and it is included in modern checklists, e.g., Nimis & Poelt (Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi Sardinia: 96. 1987), Nimis (Lichens Italy: 277. 1993), Hafellner (l.c.: 31), and in numerous regional Floras, e.g., Llimona & al. (in Rev. Bryol. Lichenol. 42: 617. 1976), Roux (in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Marseilles) 37: 91. 1977), Crespo & al. (in Lazaroa 1: 139. 1979), Torrente & Egea (in Anales Biol., Fac. Biol., Univ. Murcia 13: 17. 1987), Alonso & Egea (in Anales Biol., Fac. Biol., Univ. Murcia 21: 63. 1996), Sánchez-Biezma Serrano & al. (in Bot. Complutensis 25: 264. 2001), Calatayud & al. (in Mycol. Res. 106: 1231. 2002), Sipman (in Willdenowia 32: 131. 2002), Ariño & Gómez-Bolea (in Bol. Soc. Hist. Nat. Baleares 46: 24. 2003), Hernández Padrón & al. (in Vieraea 31: 368. 2003), Llop & Hladun (in Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat. 71: 43. 2003), and Herrera & al. (in Bot. Complutensis 31: 7. 2007). As the name Diploicia subcanescens is well-established in numerous Floras all over the distribution range of the species, the strict application of the ICBN would undoubtedly be undesirable. However, accepting this proposal to conserve it against Buellia

In this study, types of species in the genus Buellia described by J. Steiner are reviewed. Previously ignored holotypes of B. alboatra var. epipolioides, B. caesioatra, B. leptina, B. procellarum var. continuior, B. skutariensis f. compacta and B. skottsbergii are identified, lectotypes and isolectotypes of B. gotlandica, B. saxorum var. flavescens, B. skutariensis, B. skutariensis f. geographica and B. subtumida are designated, and the presumed holotypes of B. incrustans, B. sardiniensis, B. tergestina, B. trifracta and Diplotomma epipolium var. reagens are corrected to lectotypes. Further, the typification of B. stillingiana is reassessed. Amandinea skottsbergii (J. Steiner & Zahlbr.) S¸ enkard. and B. flavescens (J. Steiner) S¸ enkard. are proposed as new combinations. It is argued that the varieties Buellia alboatra var. epipolioides, B. procellarum var. continuior, B. subdisciformis f. compacta (=B. skutariensis f. compacta) and B. subdisciformis f. geographica (=B. skutariensis f. geographica) should no longer be recognized but regarded as synonyms of these species. Buellia leptina is regarded as a synonym of Diploicia subcanescens and B. subtumida is reduced to being a synonym of B. dispersa. Finally, new locations are provided for B. flavescens from Italy and B. sardiniensis from France.

In this study, specimens of blue-green algae (29 taxa), red algae (65 taxa), brown algae (33 taxa), green algae (25 taxa) and seagrasses (3 taxa), which spread in the upper infralittoral zone between south Çeşme and Cape Teke (Izmir, Aegean Sea, Turkey), were identified. A total of 155 taxa were determined. Among these, five species (Aphanothece microscopica Nägeli, Chroococcus macrococcus (Kützing) Rabenhorst, Merismopedia elegans A. Braun ex Kützing, Lyngbya birgei G. M. Smith and Oscillatoria subuliformis Kützing ex Gomont) belonging to the class Cyanophyceae have been identified as new records regarding the flora of Turkish Seas in general and two other species (Leptolyngbya foveolarum (Gomont) Anagnostidis et Komárek and Microcoleus chthonoplastes (Mertens) Zanardini ex Gomont) belonging to the same class (Cyanophyceae) have been identified as new records regardindg the algal flora of Aegean coast in particular.

In this study, the upper infralittoral zone of Sinop (Black Sea, Turkey) was researched. 276 algae and three seagrasses were determined. There are (22 taxon) blue-green bacteria, red algae (142 taxon), brown algae (55 taxon), green algae (57 taxon) and seagrasses (3 taxon). Gelidiocolax christianae J. Feldmann et G. Feldmann, Seirospora giraudyi (Kützing) De Toni (Rhodophyta), Cladophora echinus (Biasoletto) Kützing and Bryopsis plumosa (Hudson) C. Agardh var. prolifera Schiffner (Chlorophyta) were given new record for the Turkish marines. In addition, 17 taxa were given new record for the Turkish coasts of Black Sea (Acrochaetium moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Børgesen, A. subpinnatum Bornet ex G. Hamel Gelidium corneum (Hudson) J.V. Lamouroux var. pectinatum Ardissone&Strafforello, Gelidiella pannosa (Feldmann) Feldmann&G. Hamel, Chrysymenia ventricosa (Lamour) J. Ag., Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding, Dasya corymbifera J. Agardh, Chondria boryana (De Notaris ex J. Agardh) De Toni, and Chondria capillaris (Hudson) Wynne var. patens (Schiffner) V. Aysel, which belongs to Rhodophyta division, Feldmannia globifera (Kützing) G. Hamel, Microcoryne ocellata Strömfelt ve Giraudia sphacelarioides Derbès&Solier, which belongs to Heterokontophyta division also Enteromorpha prolifera (O.F. Müller) J.Agardh subsp. radiata (J. Agardh) Bliding, Ulva taeniata (Setchell) Setchell&Gardner, Cladophora aegagropila (Linnaeus) Robenhorst, Bryopsis corymbosa J. Agardh and B. cupressina J.V. Lamouroux, which belongs to Chlorophyta division.

Lecanora albosparsa is lectotypified, the new combination Protoparmeliopsis klauskalbii is proposed, and three species of lichen-forming fungi — Aspicilia albosparsa, P. klauskalbii, and Ramalina carpatica — are reported as new to the lichen biota of Turkey

In this investigation, the presence and the distribution of the blue-green algae; Cyanophyeae, 20 taxa, red algae; Rhodophyceae, 106 taxa, one of them is new record for the Blacksea shore of Turkey, Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis var. pusillum brown algae; Fucophyceae, 27 taxa, green algae; Chlorophyceae, 21 taxa, and seagrasses, 2 taxa were identified in the upper infralittoral zone of Samsun (Black Sea) shore of Turkey. A total 176 taxon was determined.