Volume 05: Isobryales. 2011. illus. XVIII, 493 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - In Chinese, with Latin nomenclature and Latin species index.

This volume contains the most primitive groups of the pleurocarpi-dipolepideae of Musci in China.From the morphyolgy, taxonomy and molecular biology, the relationships between the families and genera of the mosses of this volume are not only very complex, but the concepts of these families and genera are also quite different bryologists. Under the base of of the specimens and the previous works and studies, we try to confirm the rather natural system for the families of Leucodontaceae, Orthotrichaceae, Trachypodaceae, Mettoriaceae and Neckeraceae (s.l.). Totally, there are 1 order, 21 families and 83 genera and 283 species in this volume, and among them many tropical types and East-Asiatic types, including 3 families, 15 genera, 40 species and 2 mew species, are firstly recorded in China.