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Contribution to the bryophyte flora of Morocco: The Jbel Toubkal

Abstract:

The bryophyte flora of the Jbel Toubkal, included in the Toukbal National Park (Morocco), is catalogued. Only 12 bryophytes had been reported previously from this mountain, the highest in northern Africa. As a result of this study, the catalogue consists of 101 taxa (95 mosses and six liverworts), of which nine species are new for Africa (Amblyodon dealbatus, Brachythecium collinum, Grimmia mollis, Hyocomium armoricum, Pseudoleskeella tectorum, Schistidium cinclidodonteum, Syntrichia bolanderi, Syntrichia calcicola, Tortula guepinii), three species are newly reported for northern Africa (Bryum klinggraeffii, Bryum muehlenbeckii, Schistidium rivulare) and another six are new for Morocco (Bryum mildeanum, Cirriphyllum crassinervium, Fissidens rivularis, Plagiochila porelloides, Rhynchostegiella teneriffae and Weissia levieri).