A working checklist of accepted taxa worldwide is vital in achieving the goal of developing
an online flora of all known plants by 2020 as part of the Global Strategy for Plant …

Cryptic bryophyte species exhibit a decoupling in the degree of morphological and
molecular divergence, as a result of different processes, from recent divergence to stasis …

Abstract Background and Aims With some 7300 extant species, liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
represent one of the major land plant lineages. The backbone relationships, such as the …

The eastern part of the southern macroslope of the Himalayan Range, Hengduan Mountains
and the complex of smaller ranges from Hengduan southward to northern Indochina is one …

Aneura pinguis is a thalloid liverwort species with broad geographical distribution. It is
composed of cryptic species, however, the number of cryptic species within A. pinguis is not …

Background Molecular research revealed that some of the European Calypogeia species
described on the basis of morphological criteria are genetically heterogeneous and, in fact …

Molecular identification of species is especially important where traditional taxonomic
methods fail. The genus Calypogeia belongs to one of the tricky taxons. The simple …

Oil bodies are the unique feature of most liverworts. Their shape, color and distribution
pattern in leaf and underleaf cells are important taxonomic features of the genus …

Cephaloziaceae represent a subcosmopolitan lineage of largely terrestrial leafy liverworts
with three-keeled perianths, a reduced seta, capsules with bistratose walls, filamentous …

Interspecific hybridization had been long recognized as a widespread evolutionary process
in vascular plants. In the present review, we summarize knowledge concerning studies of …