Pleurocarpous mosses of Bangladesh : Family Entodontaceae

Abstract

Three species, namely, Erythrodontium julaceum, Pterigynandrum decolor and Entodon flavescens under family Entodontaceae are described with illustrations and a short note on each.

Four new records of Acrocarpous mosses for Bangladesh

“…Khatun and Hadiuzzaman (1994, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007a published Pleurocarpous mosses of Bangladesh and some of them were collected from Boldha garden. Kamruzzaman (1995) gave an illustrated account of 45 species of Riccia L. which was later included by Hadiuzzaman (2007) in the Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh vol-5, three of which were collected from this garden.…”

Bryophyte flora of Greater Mymensingh District of Bangladesh - Class : Bryopsida

“…Banu-Fattah and Hadiuzzaman in a series of publications (1994, 1995, 1996a,b,c, 1998a,b,c, 2003a,b, 2004, 2006a,b) on the Acrocarpous mosses of Bangladesh described several species from the families Polytrichaceae, Ditrichaceae, Dicranaceae, Leucobryaceae, Calymperaceae, Fissidentaceae, Pottiaceae, Funariaceae, Splachnaceae, Bryaceae and Bartramiaceae from the studied region. Khatun (2002) reported many Pleurocarpous mosses from this region, but only those mosses are included here which have been published so far (Khatun and Hadiuzzaman 1994, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007a. The specimens used by Banu (1991) and Khatun (2002) are preserved in the Bryology Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of Dhaka (DUBH).…”

Pleurocarpous mosses of Bangladesh : Meteoriaceae and Pterobryaceae

“…These two taxa are not found in the works of earlier workers, viz. Tixier 1967, Khatun and Hadiuzzaman 1994a, 1994b, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2004aand 2004b. Gangulee (1976 described many genera and species of the Family Meteoriaceae from the eastern India and adjacent regions but B. rufifolia was not mentioned from Bangladesh in his work.…”