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. 2016 Jan 27:(59):1-828.
doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. eCollection 2016.

World checklist of hornworts and liverworts

Lars Söderström  1 , Anders Hagborg  2 , Matt von Konrat  2 , Sharon Bartholomew-Began  3 , David Bell  4 , Laura Briscoe  2 , Elizabeth Brown  5 , D Christine Cargill  6 , Denise P Costa  7 , Barbara J Crandall-Stotler  8 , Endymion D Cooper  9 , Gregorio Dauphin  10 , John J Engel  2 , Kathrin Feldberg  11 , David Glenny  12 , S Robbert Gradstein  13 , Xiaolan He  14 , Jochen Heinrichs  11 , Jörn Hentschel  15 , Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges  16 , Tomoyuki Katagiri  17 , Nadezhda A Konstantinova  18 , Juan Larraín  2 , David G Long  19 , Martin Nebel  20 , Tamás Pócs  21 , Felisa Puche  22 , Elena Reiner-Drehwald  23 , Matt A M Renner  5 , Andrea Sass-Gyarmati  21 , Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp  24 , José Gabriel Segarra Moragues  25 , Raymond E Stotler  8 , Phiangphak Sukkharak  26 , Barbara M Thiers  27 , Jaime Uribe  28 , Jiří Váňa  29 , Juan Carlos Villarreal  30 , Martin Wigginton  31 , Li Zhang  32 , Rui-Liang Zhu  33
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World checklist of hornworts and liverworts

Lars Söderström et al. PhytoKeys. .

Abstract

A working checklist of accepted taxa worldwide is vital in achieving the goal of developing an online flora of all known plants by 2020 as part of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. We here present the first-ever worldwide checklist for liverworts (Marchantiophyta) and hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) that includes 7486 species in 398 genera representing 92 families from the two phyla. The checklist has far reaching implications and applications, including providing a valuable tool for taxonomists and systematists, analyzing phytogeographic and diversity patterns, aiding in the assessment of floristic and taxonomic knowledge, and identifying geographical gaps in our understanding of the global liverwort and hornwort flora. The checklist is derived from a working data set centralizing nomenclature, taxonomy and geography on a global scale. Prior to this effort a lack of centralization has been a major impediment for the study and analysis of species richness, conservation and systematic research at both regional and global scales. The success of this checklist, initiated in 2008, has been underpinned by its community approach involving taxonomic specialists working towards a consensus on taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution.

Keywords: Anthocerophyta; Marchantiophyta; nomenclature; taxonomy.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Habit images of selected lineages of Anthocerotophyta (hornworts) and Marchantiophyta (liverworts). A Phaeomegaceros squamuliger, photo by J. Hollinger B Haplomitrium mnioides, photo by L. Zhang C Conocephalum japonicum, photo by D. G. Long D Colura vitiensis, photo by T. Pócs E Pleurozia gigantea, photo by L. Söderström F Riccardia spegazziniana, photo by Juan Larraín.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Number of novel liverwort species, excluding new combinations, which have been described over the last 250 years, with an inset of the number described from 2001–2012.
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