CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BRYOFLORA OF AUSTRALIA, III. THE GENUS NOWELLIA MITT. (CEPHALOZIACEAE, JUNGERMANNIOPSIDA)

Tamás PÓCS; Elizabeth A. BROWN; Andi CAIRNS; D. Christine CARGILL; Sarolta PÓCS

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BRYOFLORA OF AUSTRALIA, III. THE GENUS NOWELLIA MITT. (CEPHALOZIACEAE, JUNGERMANNIOPSIDA)

Authors

Tamás PÓCS Botany Dept., Institute of Biology, Eszterházy College, Eger
Elizabeth A. BROWN National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, NSW, Australia
Andi CAIRNS James Cook University, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, Townsville, QLD, Australia
D. Christine CARGILL Cryptogam section of the Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Sarolta PÓCS Botany Dept., Institute of Biology, Eszterházy College, Eger

Keywords:

Bellenden Ker, Laurasia, Indomalesia, Cardwell Range, conservation, Queensland

Abstract

The liverwort genus Nowellia Mitt. was previously unknown from the Australian continent. During a collecting trip by the authors in June of 2001 throughout northern Queensland, two species were found, the Laurasian Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt. from the cloud forest of Bellenden Kerr summit and the Malesian-Australasian Nowellia langii Pears. from the montane forests of Cardwell Range.