The Hornwort and Liverwort Atlas of Romania

BRYOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN ROMANIAThe knowledge about bryophytes has very old routes in Romania, these can be found also in someof the names given for hornworts (Anthoceros - lepra lupului pătat, corneţel), liverworts (Marchantia -muşchiul de fântână, fierea-pământului, coada rândunicii, colbează, funuces or triercii) or mosses(Sphagnum – coada mâţei de baltă).The first studies about bryophytes in Romania were done in the beginning of the 19 th century. Inthis starting period for the Romanian bryology, the first published contributions were lists orenumerations in botanical papers or in papers dedicated especially for the study of cryptogams.The first paper in which we can find information on liverwort and moss species from Romania is:“Enumeratio stirpium magno Transsylvaniae Principatui” by Baumgarten J.C.G. from 1846,published posthumously by Fuss M. (Baumgarten 1846:1-236). An older contribution, but for which therewas no possibility to find any connection with the citation of Romanian bryophytes is “Enumeratioplantarum Galiciae & Bucowinae”, published in 1835 by Zawadzki A.The first publication of specialty, regarding the cryptogams from the Arpaşului Valley, FăgăraşMountains, appeared in 1853, by the author Ludwig Ritter von Heufler, in which also the first figures ofsome Romanian liverworts were published (Heufler 1853: plate IV) (Fig. 1). In the second half of the19 th century several publications have appeared in Romania in which hornwort, moss or liverwortspecies are mentioned. In this period the following authors have published: Schur F. (1852, 1853, 1858,1866, 1885), Heufler L. (1853), Juratzka J. (1859, 1860, 1862, 1863), Pančić J. (1861), Hampe E.(1861), Knauer B. (1863), Müller B. (1863), Hoffmann U. (1864), Fuss M. (1864-1869, 1872, 1878),Barth J. (1868, 1871, 1877, 1883, collected mosses and liverworts from the Vlădeasa Massive, but thesedata were not published - 1892:34), Grecescu D. (1869, 1876a, 1876b, 1880), Simonkai L. (1872, 1878,1890, 1892, 1893), Schimper W.Ph. (1876), Brândză D. (1876a, 1876b, 1883), Venturi G. (1880),Kanitz A. (1881), Demeter K. (1884-1886, 1888), Hazslinszky F. (1866, 1868, 1885), Csató J. (1885,1894), Breidler J. (1890a, 1890b), Mágócsy-Dietz A. (1892), Pax F. (1896, 1898), Péterfi M. (1896-1900), Loitlesberger K. (1898, 1900), Zahlbruckner A. (1900).Fig. 1. Porella platyphylla (Heufler 1853: Pl. IV, Fig. 1).9