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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.
Acknowledgements
The authors are deeply indebted to Dr Martin Hutten (U.S.A.) for correcting our English, as well as two anonymous reviewers for constructive recommendations and Prof Tamás Pócs and Prof Rui-Liang Zhu for providing some literature. The study was partly supported by a collaborative project between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (no. ВАНТ17-002) and ‘Patterns of altitudinal zonation of hepatics in East and South-East Asia’ (VAST.HTQT.NGA.02/17-18). Permission by the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources of Vietnam Academy of Science, for the collection and transfer of material across national borders, is greatly appreciated.
ORCID
Vadim A. Bakalin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7897-4305
Van S. Nguyen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4594-2926
Taxonomic additions and changes: Nil.