Andrewsianthus

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Andrewsianthus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Jungermanniales
Family: Lophoziaceae
Genus: Andrewsianthus
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Species

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Andrewsianthus is a genus of liverworts in the family Lophoziaceae.

Species include: [1] [2]

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. [3]

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References

  1. Andrewsianthus. Atlas of Living Australia.
  2. Andrewsianthus. The Plant List.
  3. 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.