TY - JOUR
T1 - World checklist of hornworts and liverworts.
AU - Söderström, Lars
AU - Hagborg, Anders
AU - von Konrat, Matt
AU - Bartholomew-Began , Sharon
AU - Bell, David
AU - Briscoe, Laura
AU - Brown, Elizabeth
AU - Cargill, D. Christine
AU - Costa, Denise P.
AU - Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J.
AU - Cooper, Endymion D.
AU - Dauphin, Gregorio
AU - Engel, John J.
AU - Feldberg, Kathrin
AU - Glenny, David
AU - Gradstein, S. Robbert
AU - He, Xiaolan
AU - Heinrichs, Jochen
AU - Hentschel, Jorn
AU - Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza
AU - Katagiri, Tomoyuki
AU - Konstantinova, Nadezhda A.
AU - Larrain, Juan
AU - Long, David G.
AU - Nebel, Martin
AU - Pocs, Tamas
AU - Puche, Felisa
AU - Reiner-Drehwald, Elena
AU - Renner, Matt A. M.
AU - Sass-Gyarmati, Andrea
AU - Schafer-Verwimp, Alfons
AU - Moragues, Jose Gabriel Segarra
AU - Stotler, Raymond E.
AU - Sukkharak, Phiangphak
AU - Thiers, Barbara M.
AU - Uribe, Jaime
AU - Vana, Jiri
AU - Villarreal, Juan Carlos
AU - Wigginton, Martin
AU - Zhang, Li
AU - Zhu, Rui-Liang
PY - 2016/1/29
Y1 - 2016/1/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology
KW - 1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology
U2 - 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261
DO - 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261
M3 - Article
VL - 59
SP - 1
EP - 828
JO - PhytoKeys
JF - PhytoKeys
SN - 1314-2011
ER -