Authors

Lars Söderström, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Anders Hagborg, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Matt von Konrat, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Sharon Bartholomew-Began, West Chester University of PennsylvaniaFollow
David Bell, University of British Columbia
Laura Briscoe, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Brown, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
D. Christine Cargill, Australian National Herbarium, Canberra
Denise P. Costa, Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
Barbara J. Crandall-Stotler, Southern Illinois University
Endymion D. Cooper, University of Maryland at College Park
Gregorio Dauphin, Acosta, Costa Rica
John J. Engel, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Kathrin Feldberg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
David Glenny, Allan Herbarium, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
S. Robbert Gradstein, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Xiaolan He, University of Helsinki
Jochen Heinrichs, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Jörn Hentschel, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Para, Brazil
Tomoyuki Katagiri, Hiroshima University
Nadezhda A. Konstantinova, N.A. Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden–Institute of Kola, Russia
Juan Larraín, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
David G. Long, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Martin Nebel, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Tamás Pócs, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary
Felisa Puche, Universitat de València
Elena Reiner-Drehwald, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Göttingen, Germany
Matt A.M. Renner, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
Andrea Sass-Gyarmati, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary
Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany
José Gabriel Segarra Moragues, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Moncada (Valencia), Spain
Raymond E. Stotler, Southern Illinois University
Phiangphak Sukkharak, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
Barbara M. Thiers, William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
Jaime Uribe, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Jiří Váňa, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Juan Carlos Villarreal, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
Martin Wigginton, Warmington, Peterborough, United Kingdom
Li Zhang, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity
Rui-Liang Zhu, East China Normal University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

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. Th e 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. Th e 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.

Publication Title

PhytoKeys

ISSN

1314-2011

Publisher

Pensoft Publishers

Volume

59

First Page

1

Last Page

828

DOI

10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261

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