World checklist of hornworts and liverworts

By

Söderström, Lars
Hagborg, Anders
Von Konrat, Matt
Bartholomew-Began, Sharon Elaine.
Bell, David.
Briscoe, Laura Rani Elizabeth, 1985-
Brown, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1956-
Cargill, Christine
Costa, Denise Pinheiro da
Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J.,
Cooper, Endymion Dante
Dauphin, Gregorio
Engel, John J., 1941-
Feldberg, Kathrin
Glenny, David, 1955-
Gradstein, Stephan Robbert
He, Xiaolan
Heinrichs, Jochen
Hentschel, Joern
Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza
Katagiri, Tomoyuki
Konstantinova, Nadezhda Alekseevna
Larraín Benoit, Juan Bernardo
Long, David
Nebel, Martin
Pócs, Tamás
Puche, Felisa
Reiner-Drehwald, Elena
Renner, Matthew A. M.
Sass-Gyarmati, Andrea, 1972-
Schäfer-Verwimp, Alfons
Segarra-Moragues, José
Stotler, Raymond E.
Sukkharak, Phiangphak
Thiers, Barbara
Uribe-M., Jaime
Váňa, Jiří, 1940-
Villarreal, Juan
Wigginton, Martin
Zhang, Li
Zhu, Rui-Liang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

59

Pages

1-828

Subjects

Anthocerophyta , Marchantiophyta , Nomenclature , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261

 

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.