The mossflora in selected areas in Mt. Natib Complex, Bataan Province, Luzon Island, Philippines

• Main Author: Linis, Virgilio Cutibar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Mosses; Plant varieties; Species diversity
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3154
• Institution: De La Salle University

One hundred fifty seven species of mosses under eighty one genera and twenty nine families were collected in selected sites in Mt. Natib Complex, Bataan Province, Luzon Island, Philippines during the span of 38 months from 1997 to 2000. The moss flora of Mt. Natib Complex is a component of the greater Luzon moss flora. About 124 (c. 79.0 %) out of the 157 species collected are already known from this island. Remaining species were found in smaller adjacent islands, and in the Visayas and Mindanao. Extra-Philippine distribution of the Mt. Natib moss flora fits well to Malesia with 46.5% of the species collected belonging to the region. Species of clearly Laurasian origin were small at 1.3%. No floristic influence from Australasia or Gondawanaland is evident. Six species comprising about 3.6% of total number of collected moss species in Mt. Natib Complex, namely, Leucoloma perviride, Macromitrium robinsonii, Jaegerina williamsii, Mastopoma robinsonii, Taxithelium robinsonii, and Warburgiella bistrumosa were endemic.