This updated checklist of the bryophytes of Madagascar was compiled from the literature, herbarium and recent collections. A total of 1144 species and infraspecific taxa are recorded for Madagascar composed of 751 mosses, 390 liverworts and 3 hornworts. 28.67% of the species reported for the Island are endemics. Twenty-four taxa are newly recorded for Madagascar and two of them, Fissidens cyathaeicola Brugg.Nann. and Taxithelium nepalense (Schwägr.) Broth. are reported for the first time for the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
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1 July 2012
Checklist of the Bryophytes of Madagascar
Lovanomenjanahary Marline,
Roger Lala Andriamiarisoa,
Jacques Bardat,
Min Chuah-Petiot,
Terry A.J. Hedderson,
Catherine Reeb,
Dominique Strasberg,
Nicholas Wilding,
Claudine Ah-Peng
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Cryptogamie, Bryologie
Vol. 33 • No. 3
July 2012
Vol. 33 • No. 3
July 2012
hornworts
liverworts
Madagascar
Mosses