THE ENDEMIC LIVERWORTS & LICHENS OF MALTA
About 130 species of bryophytes incorportating the Liverworts and Mosses
are known to exist in the Maltese Islands. Only one species of endemic
Liverwort - Riccia melitensis Massalongo - has been described
from Gozo. This was found by S. Sommier an described by Massalongo in 1913.
The species has not been rediscovered with certainty. None of the mosses
described from the Maltese Islands have been noted to be endemic.
183 species of Lichens have been listed, but a thorough investigation
of these plants is still awaited. Twelve species have been identified as
endemic.
SYSTEMATIC LIST OF ENDEMIC LIVERWORT SPECIES
Division: BRYOPHTA
(Liverworts)
Class:
HEPATICOPSIDA
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Riccia melitensis Massalongo
SYSTEMATIC LIST OF ENDEMIC LICHEN SPECIES
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Biatora fusco-nigrescens Jatta
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Caloplaca marmorata Bagi cephaloidea Jatta in Sommier
& Caruana Gatto
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Caloplaca melitensis Jatta
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Caloplaca pyracea (Ach.) Th. lactea Mass.
macrocarpa Jatta
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Collema meliteum Jatta conglomeratum
Jatta
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Graphina sophistica Nyl. melitense Jatta
in Sommier & Caruana Gatto
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Lecaniella alocyza Mass. flavidula
Jatta
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Lecanora sublentigera Jatta
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Lecidea pertusariicola Jatta
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Scolicosporium doriae Baglietto decussatum
Jatta
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Thalloedema mammillare (Fr.) Mass. pulchella
Jatta
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Thalloedema paradoxum Jatta
Adapted from:
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Lanfranco E.: The Flora. Red Data Book for the Maltese
Islands (eds. Schembri P.J.; Sultana J.). Department of Information,
Malta, 1989, p.5-70
