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. 2024 Mar 19:239:107-193.
doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.239.116679. eCollection 2024.

Beyond nutmeg, mace, and cloves: Checklist of the liverworts and hornworts of Maluku Islands (Moluccas), Indonesia

Ainun Nadhifah  1   2 , Ida Haerida  2 , Fandri Sofiana Fastanti  2 , Lars Söderström  3 , Anders Hagborg  4 , Matt von Konrat  4
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Beyond nutmeg, mace, and cloves: Checklist of the liverworts and hornworts of Maluku Islands (Moluccas), Indonesia

Ainun Nadhifah et al. PhytoKeys. .

Abstract

The first ever liverwort and hornwort checklist is provided for the Maluku Islands (Moluccas/Spice Islands) of Indonesia. We report 355 accepted and 16 doubtful species and reject 22 species previously reported for Maluku Islands. The list is based on the specimens housed in the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) and reports from over 500 literature references, including monographs, regional studies, and molecular investigations. The Maluku Islands are part of the Wallacea Biodiversity Hotspot with many unique species found only in Wallacea. Publications focusing on liverworts and hornworts of Maluku Islands are few and scattered. Considering regionally widespread species that have been recorded elsewhere, we predict that further fieldwork exploring the diversity of habitats coupled with collections unveiled from regional herbaria, a number of new records remain to be reported.

Keywords: Checklist; Indonesia; Maluku; Moluccas; hornworts; liverworts.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Moluccas in the Indonesian archipelago (inset) as defined in the present paper and the islands and archipelagos here used.
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Figure 2.
Vegetation of the Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park in Halmahera. Photo: Ida Haerida.
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Figure 3.
Ecoregions of the Moluccas Islands.
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Figure 4.
Species richness on the different islands/archipelagos of Moluccas. The darker the more species known (cf. Table 1). White (Sulu I) means that no liverwort or hornwort species are known from the area.
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