Andrewsianthus

Andrewsianthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Lophoziales
Family: Lophoziaceae
Genus: Andrewsianthus
R.M.Schust.
Species

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Andrewsianthus is a genus of liverworts in the family Lophoziaceae.

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, mainly in the southern hemisphere.[1]

It was originally published by Rudolf Mathias Schuster in Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 30: 66 in 1961.[2][3]

The genus name of Andrewsianthus is in honour of Albert LeRoy Andrews (1878-1962) an American professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist, known as "one of the world’s foremost bryologists and the American authority on Sphagnaceae.[4]

Species

Between 19,[2] and 24 species are known:[1][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  3. ^ Schuster, R.M. (1961). "Andrewsianthus in Studies in Lophoziaceae. I. The genera Anastrophyllum and Sphenolobus and their segregates". Revue bryologique et lichenologique. 30: 66.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ Andrewsianthus. Atlas of Living Australia.
  6. ^ Andrewsianthus. The Plant List.


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