New liverwort records for Vietnam |
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| Authors: | Vadim A Bakalin Van S Nguyen Eugene A Borovichev |
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| Institution: | 1. Botanical Garden-Institute, Vladivostok, Russiavabakalin@gmail.com;3. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ha N?i, Vietnam;4. Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of the Kola Science Centre RAS, Apatity, Murmansk Region, Russia;5. Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Centre RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia |
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| Abstract: | A short collecting expedition to Vietnam in 2016 yielded 700 specimens of 170 liverwort species of which 79 were new to the flora of Vietnam, including 43 species new to Indochina. Many of the newly recorded species have meta-Himalayan distributions (that predicts occurrence of these taxa in the areas of north-west Vietnam situated in the south-easternmost spurs of the Himalaya). Some species were recorded based on the study of living material, permitting the examination of oil body characteristics for Riccardia and Calypogeia. The known taxonomic liverwort diversity of Vietnam is currently 379 taxa, estimated to represent ca 80% of the actual taxonomic diversity in the country. |
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| Keywords: | Hepaticae Indochina Liverworts New records Vietnam |
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