2005 Volume 98 Pages 259-298
A revised cheklist of the bryophytes species for Rio de Janeiro state recognizes 1036 taxa (698 mosses, 333 liverworts and 5 hornworts), distributed among 309 genera and 95 families. The distribution within the state by counties and the altitudinal range in Brazil are provided for each taxon. The information included in this paper was based on the Yano catalogues (1981, 1984, 1985), Gradstein & Costa (2003), new publications, and collections of the RB and HRJ herbaria. From the 91 counties of Rio de Janeiro state only 34 presented species records being, the remaining other counties lack information. Two species are new records for Brazil: Campylopus albidovirens Herzog and Homaliodendron piniforme (Brid.) Enroth.; and nine are new for Rio de Janeiro state: Calypogeia uncinulatula Herzog, Drepanolejeunea araucariae Steph., Meiothecium boryanum (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., Metzgeria agnewiae Kuwah., Metzgeria scyphigera A. Evans, Odontoschisma denudatum (Nees) Dumort., Pilotrichella rigida (Müll. Hal.) Besch., Pohlia elongata Hedw., and Taxiphyllum taxirameum (Mitt.) M. Fleisch. About 197 species were listed which, were recently reduced to synonymy, and 83 were excluded for being errouneous or doubtful records.
