Hookeria

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Hookeria
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Hookeria lucens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Hookeriales
Family: Hookeriaceae
Genus: Hookeria
Sm., 1808

Hookeria is a genus of mainly tropical mosses. It was defined by James Edward Smith in 1808 and named for William Jackson Hooker. [1]

There are nine species recognised in the genus Hookeria, the most broadly distributed being Hookeria lucens and Hookeria acutifolia . [2]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, A. J. E.; Smith, Ruth (2004). The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 698. ISBN   9780521546720.
  2. ↑ Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS; Pisarenko, Olga Yu.; Bakalin, Vadim A.; Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS; Ignatova, Elena A.; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology (2020). "Hookeria acutifolia (Hookeriaceae, Bryophyta), a new species for the moss flora of Russia". Botanica Pacifica. doi: 10.17581/bp.2020.09104 .


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