The volume includes traditional, Flora of Australia-style descriptions of 22 families, 42 genera and 238 species and infra-specific taxa, including synonymy, specimen citations and notes on habitat and distribution. The main features of the first volume are:Īn introduction documenting 200 years of research on Australian mosses moss classification and an overview of morphology and sexuality an account of ecology and biodiversity the origin and evolution of mosses fossil bryophytes and a key to the more than 300 genera of mosses known from Australia and its island territories. Together, these volumes represented the first national account of these diverse and ecologically significant organisms. This is the first of three volumes describing and illustrating more than 1000 species of Australian mosses. Flora of Australia Volume 51, Mosses 1 (PDF - 19.42 MB).Volume 51, Mosses 1 is available for download as a PDF file This book is available from bookshops which stock botanical titles or CSIRO Publishing
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