Liverworts and Hornworts of Sri Lanka: a revised checklist

Abstract

A revised checklist of liverworts and hornworts of Sri Lanka is presented based on an extensive review of published literature sources and incorporating synonymy from numerous floristic reports and taxonomic revisions. A number of erroneous records and doubtfully recorded taxa have been excluded. In total 82 genera and 327 species of liverworts and 4 genera and 5 species of hornworts are accepted. For each species literature sources are listed. For synonyms the source of the synonymy is given. Further, names whose type specimens originated from Sri Lanka are indicated. Two new formal taxonomic changes are propsed: Bazzania obtusa D.G.Long & Rubasinghe, nom. nov. and Heteroscyphus fleischeri (Steph.) D.G.Long & Rubasinghe, comb. nov. An index to all accepted names and synonyms is appended. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/cjsbs.v43i1.7280 Ceylon Journal of Science (Bio. Sci.) 43(1): 1-36, 2014