Introduction
Welcome to the Mosses of the Tropical Andes home page! Here you will find links and text related to the rich moss diversity of the Andean region. The scope of the area encompasses the entire countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the northwest portion of Argentina (provinces of Jujuy, Salta and Tucumán). Regional diversity is one of the highest in the world for mosses, with over 2000 species recorded, distributed among 362 genera and 76 families.
Efforts of the project include: 1) previous and ongoing field work in the various countries, 2) a data base containing 48,110 collections entered in the Missouri Botanical Garden TROPICOS system (W3MOST), providing for each species a specimen list and map, 3) a checklist linked to the TROPICOS data base, 4) a flora "in progress", 5) links to the various countries, collectors, author names, and literature (with a limited number of 19th and early 20th century journal articles scanned and accessible for viewing, e.g., Herzog 1916).
- Overview of Region and Countries
- Key to Andean Moss Families
- Index to Generic Family Placement
- Index of Synonyms and Other Names
- Bibliography and Literature Cited
- Author List
- Collector List
Acknowledgements
Photograph:Adelothecium bogotense. Antioquia, Colombia by Juan David Parra
Previous grants from the National Science Foundation (DEB-8818051, DEB-9201281 with A.I.D. support, DEB-9626747) have been instrumental in the development of the moss flora of Colombia, and the Tropical Andes. The present ongoing study of Bolivian mosses is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB-0542422). Small support grants have been provided by Danish Natural Science Research Council (Colombia, Ecuador), the Conoco & Lawrence Fund, New York Botanical Garden (Colombia), and the Taylor Fund for Ecological Research, Missouri Botanical Garden (Bolivia).
Many individuals and institutions have provided support directly or indirectly to the Moss Flora of the Tropical Andes project over some 20 years.
Colombia. Jaime Aguirre C. (COL), Linda Albert de Escobar (†, HUA), Lucia Atehortúa (HUA), Julio Betancur (COL), Ricardo Callejas (HUA), Margarita Escobar A. (HUA), José L. Fernández (COL), Ramiro Fonnegra G. (HUA), Pilar Franco (†, COL), Angela Gómez (HUA), Edgar Linares C. (COL), John D. Lynch (Bogotá), Orlando Marulanda (HUA), Juan David Parra, (HUA), Vicente Pérez (HUA), Bernardo Ramírez P. (CAUP, formally PSO), Darío Sánchez (MEDEL), Philip Silverstone-Sopkin, (CUVC), Jaime Uribe (COL). Ecuador. David Neill (MO, QCNE), Elsa Toapanta (QCNE). Peru. Jasmin Opisso (USM). Bolivia. Claudia Aldana (LPB), Luzmila Arroyo P. (USZ), Stephan Beck (LPB), Marcos Decker (BOLV), Alfredo Fuentes C. (USZ, LPB), Hibert Huaylla (HSB), Marko Lewis (LPB & Quime), Ivan Linneo (USZ), Reinaldo Lozano (HSB), Rosa Isela Meneses (LPB), Fabiana Mogro (BOLV), Ninel Sanjines (LPB), Martha Serrano (HSB). Argentina: Amalia B. Biasuco (LIL), Maria Schiavone (LIL). U.S.A. & Europe. Pedro Acevedo (US), Bruce Allen (MO), Henrik Balslev (AAU), Bill Buck (NY), Graciela Calabrese (MA), Maria Cano (MUB), Marshall Crosby (MO), Mayte Gallego (MUB), Rob Gradstein (GOET), Dana G.Griffin III (FLAS), Eberhard H. & Pirkko D. Hegewald (Germany), Bob Ireland (MO & US), Juan Jiménez (MUB), Simon Laegaard (AAU), Jim Luteyn (NY), Barb Mack (MO), Bob Magill (MO), Jesús Muñoz (MA), Mike Nee (NY), Michelle Price (G), Ron Pursell (PAC), Catherine Rausch (PC), Bill Reese (†, LAF), Inés Sastre-De Jesús (MAPR), Harrie Sipman (B), Bertil Ståhl (S), William C. Steere (†, NY), Steve Timme (KSP), Hank van der Werff (MO), Richard Zander (MO, formally BUF), Hans-Joachim Zündorf (JE).
Steve Churchill, Missouri Botanical Garden, Steve.Churchill@mobot.org
Collaborators: Maria Cano (MUB), Mayte Gallego (MUB), Juan Jimenez (MUB), Jasmin Opissio (USM).