Cyclea barbata Miers is reported for the first time from south India (Silent Valley forests, Kerala). This is commonly used as a medicinal plant in Java, for stomach troubles and as a prophylactic against fever. Nomenclature, description ad other relevant notes are provided.

A list of 27 species of lichenized fungi from Bosnia and Herzegovina is presented, based on herbarium specimens kept in GZU. Six species are new to Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fuscopannaria sampaiana, Lecidea tessellata, Micarea melaena, Rinodina polysporoides, Usnea barbata, and Xanthoparmelia verruculifera.

Usnea barbata (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg (U. barbata) is a medicinal representative of the lichens from genus (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes), containing bioactive secondary metabolites. The aim this study comparative analysis between two separated parts thallus layers: medulla–cortex (mcUB) and central cord (ccUB) whole dried U. (dUB). These three samples were examined regarding color diff...

A new name, Piptochaetium fuscum, is provided for a taxon hitherto known as Piptochaetium setosum (Trin.) Arechav. Morphological, anatomical, and molecular studies that argue against including Piptochaetium in Stipa, and hence use of S. purpurata (Phil.) Columbus & J.P. Sm., are cited.

Ongoing human pressures over recent decades have caused the loss and ensuing impoverishment of complexity diversity Mediterranean habitats dominated by algal species order Fucales. Gongolaria barbata, a habitat-forming Fucales that has disappeared in several places across Mediterranean, was reintroduced cove (Cala Teulera, Maó Bay, Menorca) where it known to been locally extinct for more than 4...