A Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand: Volume 2 (Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 134) - Hardcover

Engel, John J.; Glenny, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935641166 ISBN 13: 9781935641162

Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2019

Synopsis

A Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand is an illustrated guide to an important component of New Zealand s green plant flora, to be published in four volumes. This volume mainly deals with one important family in the New Zealand liverwort flora: the Lophocoleaceae. In addition it covers two small families: Geocalycaceae and Brevianthaceae. The Lophocoleaceae includes two large genera that have been particularly difficult for New Zealand bryologists: Heteroscyphus with 31 species and Chiloscyphus with 22 species in New Zealand.

There are now 652 species of liverworts and hornworts known from the New Zealand region (Kermadec, North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland, Campbell, and Antipodes islands). This volume provides keys and descriptions to 111 species. One hundred of these are found in New Zealand. The other 11 species occur in Tasmania, making the volume equally useful for the Tasmanian student.

Detailed notes are provided on distribution and habitat, and discussions under family and genus descriptions place the New Zealand and Tasmanian flora in the context of the world liverwort and hornwort flora. To complement the descriptions, 220 black-and-white plates illustrate the species, and 59 color images illustrate all but one of the 15 genera in this volume. The bibliography updates that published in Volume 1 in 2008.

When this four-volume flora is completed, it will be the first flora for these two groups of bryophytes since Hooker s 1864 1867 Handbook of the New Zealand Flora.

Edition details

• Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1935641166
• ISBN 13: 9781935641162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 750