Rozijane Santos Fernandes‡, José Augusto dos Santos Silva‡, Felipe Polivanov Ottoni‡§, Denise Pinheiro Costa|Corresponding author: Rozijane Santos Fernandes ( rozijanef@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges © Rozijane Santos Fernandes, José Augusto dos Santos Silva, Felipe Polivanov Ottoni, Denise Pinheiro Costa. 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. Citation:
Fernandes RS, Silva JAS, Ottoni FP, Costa DP (2021) Diversity of thalloid liverworts in Brazilian Savanna of Parque Nacional da Chapada das Mesas, Maranhão, Brazil. Check List 17(1): 45-58. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.45 |  |
We investigate the diversity of thalloid liverworts in Parque Nacional da Chapada das Mesas (PNCM). Illustrations, descriptions, taxonomic characters, and notes on the geographic distributions of species, as well as an identification key, are provided. We collected specimens during the rainy seasons between 2017 and 2020. Six families, six genera, and seven species were recorded, of which five species are recorded for the first time from Maranhão state, two species are recorded for the first time from the Brazilian Northeast Region, and two are newly recorded from the Brazilian Cerrado. Our results increase in the number of thallose liverwort species in Maranhão by 57%. Our data add to what is known about PNCM, Maranhão, and Brazilian Cerrado liverworts, and reinforce the importance of PNCM for conservation.