Briófi tas na Estação Ecológica da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brasil

Abstract

The Ecological Station of the Federal University of Minas Gerais is an important urban conservation area with semi-deciduous forest and savanna vegetation where several studies on local fauna and fl ora have been carried out. However, there is no scientifi c information on bryophytes, which hinders detailed studies on these plants. The aim of this study was to record the bryophyte species present in the Ecological Station, and to add information on their reproduction, as well as supplementary data on microhabitats and geographic species distribution. Within 60 bryophyte samples collected in diff erent substrates, nine liverwort species and fi fteen moss species were found. The moss Isopterygium byssobolax (Mull.Hal.) Paris is a new record for the state of Minas Gerais; asexual propagules are described for the fi rst time in the moss Donnellia lagenifera (Mitt.) W. R. Buck; and the liverwort Cylindrocolea planifolia (Steph.) R. M. Schust has again been recorded in the state after 160 years.