The Hornwort and Liverwort Atlas of Romania

THE HORNWORT AND LIVERWORT SPECIES OF ROMANIAThe Hornworts and Liverworts list of Romania include 215 species (4 hornworts species and 211liverworts species). Until 1900, only 122 hornworts and liverworts species were reported for Romania(Tabel 1). With time, the number of hornworts and liverworts species reported for Romania rose to 151species in 1967, 192 species in 1983, 198 species in 1998, 203 species in 2006 to 206 species in 2007(Table 2).In the last decade were published 15 new taxa to Romania:1. Anthoceros agrestis (Ştefănuţ 2004d);2. Blepharostoma trichophyllum subsp. brevirete (Ştefănuţ 2004i);3. Cephaloziella baumgartneri (Smets 2003);4. Cephaloziella integerrima (Bálint & Orbán 2002);5. Cephaloziella massalongi (Jakab 2000a);6. Cephaloziella spinigera (Lindb.) Warnst. (Jakab 1999);7. Conocephalum salebrosum (Szweykowski, Buczkowska, Odrzykoski 2005),8. Frullania parvistipula (Ştefănuţ 2004c);9. Haplomitrium hookeri (Ştefănuţ 2000a);10. Lophozia opacifolia (Ştefănuţ 2004a);11. Lophozia silvicola (Bakalin 2005);12. Marsupella commutata (Ştefănuţ 2004e);13. Pallavicinia lyellii (Ştefănuţ 2003a);14. Pleurocladula albescens var. albescens (Ştefănuţ 2000b);15. Scapania gymnostomophila Kaal. (Ştefănuţ 2008a).Table 1. The number of hornwort and liverwort species published to Romania for periods of 50 years.Period Number of species1801-1850 411851-1900 811900-1950 491951-2000 342001-2008 101801-2008 215Table 2. The number of hornwort and liverwort species published for Romania.PublicationNumber of speciesHornwortsLiverwortsTotal speciesConfirmedSynonymsRejectedPapp 1967a 2 158 160 151 7 2Mihai 1983a 3 197 200 192 4 4Mihai, Pascal & Costică 1998 3 207 210 198 6 6Schumacker & Váňa 2000 2 191 193 190 0 3Söderström, Urmi & Váňa 2002 3 192 195 193 0 2Schumacker & Váňa 2005 4 189 193 192 0 1Sabovljević & Natcheva 2006 4 203 207 203 0 4Söderström, Urmi & Váňa 2007 3 207 210 206 0 4HORNWORT AND LIVERWORTATLAS OF ROMANIA, 20084 211 215 215 - -20