Sri Lanka mosses
These pages
contain various information about Sri Lankan mosses, which appear either
on this page or on the
pages that can be found via the buttons to the left. On this
page:
1. Statistics
2. Collectors
of bryophytes in Sri Lanka
3. Moss collecting
in Sri Lanka, 2004 (NB - 50+ photos are displayed)
Statistics
|
Total |
Endemics |
Endemics
/ 10km2 |
Taxa
/ 10km2 |
| Families |
60 |
0 |
|
|
|
| Genera |
190 |
0 |
|
|
|
| Species |
551 |
59 |
10.71% |
8.99 |
83.98 |
(Sri Lanka area = 65610
km2)
Collectors
of bryophytes in Sri Lanka
This list
of collectors was first published by O'Shea (2003), but is now updated;
please let me know of
any other additions that can be made.
* Locality
of collections: B = Berlin, BM = London, BO = Bogor, BR = Brussels,
PC = Paris, PDA = Peradeniya, S = Stockholm, TNS = Tokyo, W = Vienna
|
Collector
|
Year
|
Published
|
Collections*
|
|
Moon, A.
|
1816-1825
|
|
BM
|
|
Walker, A
|
1825-1827
|
Mitten 1859
|
NY
|
|
Wight, R.
|
1836
|
|
BM
|
|
Maxwell(, E.?)
|
(<1839?)
|
Mitten 1859
|
NY
|
|
Gardner, G.
|
1844-1849
|
Mitten 1859
|
BM, NY, PDA
|
|
Thwaites, G.H.K.
|
1849-1880
|
Mitten 1859,
1873; Dixon 1930
|
BM, NY, PDA
|
|
Nietner, J.
|
<1869
|
Müller
1869
|
B?
|
|
Beccari, O.D.
|
1865
|
Hampe 1872
|
BM
|
|
Beckett, T.W.N.
|
<1873,
1882-1883
|
Mitten 1873;
Fleischer 1915-1922
|
B?, BM, BO?,
NY
|
|
Hance, H.F.
|
<1886
|
|
BM
|
|
Stone, A.B.
|
1891
|
|
BM
|
|
Schiffner, V.
|
1893
|
Froehlich 1953
|
S, W
|
|
Andersson
|
?
|
|
BM
|
|
Fleischer, M.
|
1898
|
Musci Fl. Ind.
Arch.
|
BM
|
|
Darrell, J.H.
|
1898
|
Dixon 1914
|
BM
|
|
Herzog, T.
|
1906
|
Herzog 1910[1911],
1926
|
BM
|
|
Queste, Fr.
|
1911
|
Dixon 1914
|
BM
|
|
Binstead, C.H.
|
1913
|
Dixon 1915, 1919
|
BM
|
|
Alston, A.H.G.
|
1925-1930
|
|
BM, PDA
|
|
Inoue, H.
|
1966
|
Noguchi 1973
|
TNS
|
|
Townsend, C.C.
|
1973
|
Townsend 1978,
1982, 1983, 1991
|
Hb. Townsend,
BM
|
|
Tixier, P.
|
1973
|
Tixier 1975
|
PC, PDA
|
| Jayasuriya,
A.H.M. |
1973-5 |
Jayasuriya
1984 |
PDA |
|
Ruinard, C.
|
1978
|
Townsend 1982,
Tixier 1983
|
Hb. Townsend,
PC?
|
|
Onraedt, M.
|
1976, 1977, 1981
|
Onraedt 1986
|
Hb. Onraedt,
BR
|
|
Schaefer-Verwimp,
A.
|
1984
|
|
BM, Hb. Schaefer-Verwimp
|
| Wijetunga,
A. |
2000-2004 |
|
Hb. Wijetunga |
| Tan,
B.C. & O'Shea,
B.J. |
2004 |
?2005 |
PDA |
O'Shea, B.J. 2003.
Bryogeographical relationships of the mosses of Sri Lanka. Journal
of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 93: 293-304. [download
an MS Word copy (missing some of the plates)]. |