Claudio Delgadillo M. & Angeles Cárdenas S.

Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Apartado Postal 70-233, 04510 México, D.F. Mexico

The 1995 hard copy of LATMOSS appeared as Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden vol. 56. In the interval several changes have occurred. One of the original authors moved, the synonymy has been expanded, and the number of entries has reduced from more than 4000 to 3877. These numbers will continue to change as the database is updated with recent taxonomic revisions or some comprehensive floristic listings. All other provisions in the introduction of the previous version still apply. To facilitate the identification of country names, the list of codes is reproduced below:

NA = North America
• NA1 = Greenland
• NA2 = Alaska
• NA3 = Canada
• NA4a = Western United States
• NA4b = Eastern United States
• NA5 = Mexico

CA = Central America
• CA1 = Guatemala
• CA2 = Belize
• CA3 = El Salvador
• CA4 = Honduras
• CA5 = Nicaragua
• CA6 = Costa Rica
• CA7 = Panama

SA = South America
• SA0 = Colombia
• SA2 = Venezuela
• SA3 = Guyana
• SA4 = Suriname
• SA5 = French Guiana
• SA6 = Ecuador
• SA7 = Peru
• SA8 = Bolivia
• SA9 = Brazil
• SA10 = Chile
• SA11 = Paraguay
• SA12 = Argentina
• SA13 = Uruguay
• SA14 = Falkland Islands

• Bahamas = Bahamas Islands
• Virgin Is = Virgin Islands
• IS G = Galápagos Islands
• J Fdez = Juan Fernández Islands