臺灣苔癬植物科之檢索表

A Key to the Families of Bryophyta in Taiwan

The following key were prepared for the use or identifying the bryophytes found in Taiwan to their families. From the present record there are a total of 92 families, viz. 37 belonging to the Hepaticae along with the single hornwort family and 54 families of Musci (cf. Lai & Wang-Yang 1976) known to our area, but it is anticipated that many a new taxon may be discovered and added in the years ahead. In constructing the key an effort has been made so that a family will key out once, rather than in a variety of places, but the extreme polymorphism of several families make it necessary to key them out two or more times. The outline of the classification of the bryophytes, particularly the circumscription of families and the arrangement into orders, subclasses, followed here is essentially the schemes proposed by Schuster on hepatics and Brotherus on mosses. To Schuster the present key owes much to many or his earlier works on Hepaticae.