Regigláucia Rodrigues de Oliveira‡, Hermeson Cassiano de Oliveira§, Denilson Fernandes Peralta|, Gonçalo Mendes da Coceição‡Corresponding author: Regigláucia Rodrigues de Oliveira ( aicualg.r@gmail.com ) Corresponding author: Hermeson Cassiano de Oliveira ( hermeson123@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Adaíses Simone Maciel da Silva © 2018 Regigláucia Rodrigues de Oliveira, Hermeson Cassiano de Oliveira, Denilson Fernandes Peralta, Gonçalo Mendes da Coceição. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Oliveira RR, Oliveira HC, Peralta DE, Conceição GM (2018) Acrocarpic mosses (Bryophyta) of Chapada das Mesas National Park, Maranhão, Brazil. Check List 14(6): 967-975. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.967 |  |
Chapada das Mesas National Park is located in southwestern Maranhão state, Brazil and comprises several forest types characteristic of the Brazilian Cerrado. We contribute to the knowledge of the distribution of Brazilian bryoflora and provide a list of moss species of Chapada das Mesas National Park. A total of 38 species of acrocarpic mosses were found, with Fissidentaceae being the richest family with 11 species. Of the species recorded, 22 are new occurrences for the state of Maranhão, and 4 of these are new records for the Northeast Region of Brazil. Most of the species recorded are broadly distributed in Brazil (66%), while restricted species represented just 10%. The most common acrocarpic moss species were Hyophila involuta (Hook.) A. Jaeger and Octoblepharum albidum Hedw.