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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 deals with four large families in the New Zealand flora which are not only prominent on the forest floor of New Zealand in high rainfall areas, but
are the most robust of the terrestrial species:
Plagiochilaceae,
Acrobolbaceae, Schistochilaceae,
and Balantiopsidaceae. In addition it deals with six smaller families: Mastigophoraceae, Ptilidiaceae, Chaetophyllopsidaceae, Herzogianthaceae, Jubulopsidaceae, and Lepidolaenaceae.
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 125 species. One hundred twenty of these are found in New Zealand. The other five 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, 167 black-and-white plates illustrate the species, and 121 color images illustrate all 25 genera dealt with in this volume.
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.
- Authors: John J. Engel and David Glenny
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Publication Information
- Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Publication Date: 2019
ISBN: 9781935641179
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Illustrated: Yes
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