The checklist of liverworts and hornworts of Vietnam was published more than 50 years ago. The aim of this study is to provide new checklist based on literature survey. The updated checklist includes 5 species of hornworts and 296 species of liverworts. The largest taxonomic group in regional hepatic flora is Lejeuneaceae that counts 178 species. It is estimated that the known taxonomic diversity will exceed 400 taxa once purposeful researches would be made. | TAP CHI SINH HOC 2016, 38(4): 480-491 The checklist of Hepaticae and Anthocerotae DOI: THE CHECKLIST OF LIVERWORTS (Hepaticae) AND HORNWORTS (ANTHOCEROTAE) OF VIETNAM UPDATED BASED ON LITERATURE SURVEY Vadim Bakalin1*, Nguyen Van Sinh2 1 Botanical Garden-Institute of Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia 2 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, VAST ABSTRACT: The checklist of liverworts and hornworts of Vietnam was published more than 50 years ago. The aim of this study is to provide new checklist based on literature survey. The updated checklist includes 5 species of hornworts and 296 species of liverworts. The largest taxonomic group in regional hepatic flora is Lejeuneaceae that counts 178 species. It is estimated that the known taxonomic diversity will exceed 400 taxa once purposeful researches would be made. Keywords: Anthocerotae, Hepaticae, checklist, hornworts, liverworts, Indochina, Vietnam. Citation: Bakalin V., Nguyen Van Sinh, 2016. The checklist of liverworts (Hepaticae) and hornworts (Anthocerotae) of Vietnam updated based on literature survey. Tap chi Sinh hoc, 38(4): 480-491. DOI: . *Corresponding author: vabakalin@. Received 10 October 2016, accepted 20 December 2016 INTRODUCTION Vietnam and Thailand are two countries in Indochina those were estimated as the taxonomically richest in the region. Both of them have attracted attention of bryologists for a long time since the last quarter of ninetieth century. The first checklist of Vietnam bryophytes was published by a prominent Hungarian bryologist T. Pócs (1965). It includes 394 species of Musci and 162 species of Hepaticae and Anthocerotae. Since then, knowledge on hepatics in this area has been updated. After publication of the first checklist, intensive works were continued by T. Pócs, T. Ninh (former PhD student of Pócs and the first Vietnamese bryologist), P. Tixier and .
