Bryophyte Project Area
Bryophytes (mainly mosses and liverworts) are primitive, green, mainly terrestrial plants. Most inhabit soil, bare rock and the bark of trees, and are especially diverse and luxuriant in damp, shaded habitats from the tropics to cool-temperate regions and montane areas. A small number of specialised taxa thrive in the more extreme conditions prevalent in semi-arid and arid Australia and play a significant role in binding and stabilising fragile soil. At least 1800 bryophyte species are known from Australia, these comprising significant endemic, southern-temperate, pantropical and cosmopolitan elements. ABRS provides information on these through an online checklist, a CD ROM key and the Flora of Australia and Flora of Australia Supplementary Series.
Books
Flora of Australia series
- Flora of Australia Volume 51
Mosses 1
Flora of Australia Supplementary Series
- Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 2
Register of Type Specimens of Mosses in Australian Herbaria - Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 14
Key to the Genera of Australian Mosses - OUT OF PRINT - Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 16
The Mosses of Norfolk Island - Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 17
Catalogue of Australian Mosses - OUT OF PRINT - Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 20
A Field Guide to the Mosses and Allied Plants of Southern Australia - OUT OF PRINT - Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 21
Catalogue of Australian Liverworts and Hornworts - OUT OF PRINT
Online publications
CD ROMs & software
- ABRS Identification Series CD ROM
Key to Australasian Liverwort and Hornwort Genera - OUT OF PRINT