Bryophyte Nomenclator

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This nomenclator is a continuation of the work of many bryologists over the years. The dataset presented here is descended from two massive bibliographic projects for cataloging the published names of bryophytes — Index Muscorum and Index Hepaticarum. In fact, the very first dataset entered into the nascent TROPICOS database in the 1980s was the moss nomenclature from the five-volume set of Index Muscorum. That baseline dataset combined with updates from the Index of Mosses and Recent Literature on Bryophytes series have maintained TROPICOS as the most comprehensive public database of moss names. Liverwort names have lagged somewhat behind the moss names in TROPICOS, but many were added during the compilation of the Index of Hepatics volume along with the most recent Index of Bryophytes issues and RLB. Many more liverwort names were digitized as part of the Index Hepaticarum project at the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques (G) and these names have found their way into TROPICOS by way of the Early Land Plants Today project at the Field Museum and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. We are very grateful for a recent data exchange with the ELPT project courtesy of Matt von Konrat, Lars Söderström, and Anders Hagborg that allowed us to add about 11,000 liverwort names that were missing from TROPICOS. In addition Marshall Crosby kindly contributed a manuscript version of his moss checklist that formed the baseline data for the moss synonymy in this nomenclator. The liverwort synonymy presented here was compiled by JCB using the recent world checklist as the baseline data combined with information from TROPICOS and the published literature.

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