Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

A Checklist of Mosses

Project Website

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/tropicos/most/checklist.shtml

Project Description

Mosses are the second most speciose group of plants, after the enormously richer angiosperms. A Checklist of Mosses lists 12,800 recognized species in 901 genera, including 42 synonymous genera with species that have not been transferred to the accepted genus. Each listed species is qualified using a four-level ranking system that indicates our level of knowledge about the species. Each in the highest three levels is supported by at least one citation from a bibliography of 1,756 references published since 1962, the closing date for the last comprehensive list of mosses, Index Muscorum. While about 44% of the species fall into the highest rank, about 42% fall into the lowest, indicating there is ample opportunity for basic taxonomic work to be done on the mosses. This prospectus includes the Introduction to the Checklist, sample pages from it, and a list of the Checklist's genera, with the number of species and family placement indicated for each.

Contact

Marshall Crosby
Project contact
Missouri Botanical Garden

Project Type

Data Provider

Project Language

English

Key Inputs

Checklist prepared following research

Key Infrastructure

Publication

Key Technologies

Word and Wordperfect

Key Processes

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global - Global

Taxonomic Scope

Class - Bryopsida

Comments

Contributor to species 2000

Record Status

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