“…Among the very first to collect bryophytes were Ernst Ule, Ernest Hampe, Auguste Glaziou, and others during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Hornschuch, 1840;Hampe, 1870Hampe, , 1872Hampe, , 1874aHampe, , b, 1877Hampe, , 1879Mü ller, 1898Mü ller, , 1900Mü ller, , 1901Dusén, 1903;Stephani, 1905Stephani, -1912Brotherus, 1924;Herzog, 1925). Nearly 55 years elapsed before additional studies were published on the state's bryophyte flora (Costa, 1988(Costa, , 1992(Costa, , 1994Costa & Lima, 2005;Molinaro & Costa, 2001;Costa & Yano, 1988, 1995Oliveira-e-Silva, 1998;Schäfer-Verwimp, 1989. Yano (1981Yano ( , 1984Yano ( , 1995Yano ( , 1996Yano ( , 2006 compiled bryophyte catalogues for Brazil, and summarized the country's bryological literature.…”