Estado actual de la flora de musgos de Colombia

Abstract

INITIAL INVESTIGATIONS TOWARD AN INVETORY AND PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF THE COLOMBIAN MOSS FLORA ARE IN THE FINAL STAGES. ABOUT 220 SITE WERE VISITED AND AROUND 6000 COLLECTIONS WERE OBTAINED; ADDITIONALLY, AN EQUAL NUMBER OF COLECTIONS HAS BEEN MADE BY STAFF AND STUDENTS FORM SEVEN COLOMBIAN INSTRUCTIONS (COAH, COL, CUVC, HPUJ, HUA, MEDEL, PSO). A PARADOX DATA BASE ALREADY INCLUDES ABOUT 15 000 COLLECTIONS WHICH WILL BE THE BASIS FOR FUTURE FLORISTIC WORK. PRELIMINARY EVALUATION INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF ABOUT 896 MOSS SPECIES IN 250 GENERA AND 69 FAMILIES WHICH CAN BE DEVIDED INTO NEOTROPICAL AND ELEMENTS WITH WIDER DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE WORLD.