Lepicolea

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Lepicolea
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Lepicolea ochroleuca
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Lepidoziales
Family: Lepicoleaceae
Genus: Lepicolea
Dumort. [1]
Type species
Lepicolea scolopendra
(Hook.) Dumort. ex Trevis.
Synonyms
  • LeperomaMitt.

Lepicolea is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Lepicoleaceae. [2] [3]

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The genus was first described by Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier. [3]

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, but mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. [3] Lepicolea ochroleuca is found in Chile [4] [5] and Brazil, Lepicolea prudent is found in Colombia and Lepicolea ramenifissa is found in Venezuela and Bolivia. [6]

Lepicolea ochroleuca also belongs to the Gondwanaland flora with occurrences in South Africa, New Zealand and especially South America, reaching up to Mexico. It was also found to contains a natural compound called Ligan, [5] and also Sesquiterpenoids and diterpenoids. [4]

Species

As accepted by GBIF; [3]

References

  1. ↑ Dumortier, B.C.J., 1835. Recueil d'Observations sur les Jungermanniacées 20.
  2. ↑ Söderström, Lars; Hagborg, Anders; von Konrat, Matt; Bartholomew-Began, Sharon; Bell, David; Briscoe, Laura; Brown, Elizabeth; Cargill, D. Christine; da Costa, Denise Pinheiro; Crandall-Stotler, Barbara J.; Cooper, Endymion; Dauphin, Gregorio; Engel, John; Feldberg, Kathrin; Glenny, David; Gradstein, S. Robbert; He, Xiaolan; Hentschel, Joern; Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza; Katagiri, Tomoyuki; Konstantinova, Nadezhda A.; Larraín, Juan; Long, David; Nebel, Martin; Pócs, Tamás; Puche, Felisa; Reiner-Drehwald, Elena; Renner, Matt; Sass-Gyarmati, Andrea; Schäfer-Verwimp, Alfons; Segarra-Moragues, José; Stotler, Raymond E.; Sukkharak, Phiangphak; Thiers, Barbara; Uribe, Jaime; Váňa, Jiří; Wigginton, Martin; Zhang, Li; Zhu, Rui-Liang (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". PhytoKeys (59): 1–828. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261 . ISSN   1314-2003. PMC   4758082 . PMID   26929706.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Lepicolea Dumort". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  4. 1 2 Liu, Huei-Ju; Wu, Chia-Li; Becker, Hans; Zapp, Josef (April 2000). "Sesquiterpenoids and diterpenoids from the Chilean liverwort Lepicolea ochroleuca". Phytochemistry. 53 (8): 845–849. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(99)00609-3.
  5. 1 2 Cullmann, Frank; Becker, Hans (December 1999). "Lignans from the liverwort Lepicolea ochroleuca". Phytochemistry. 52 (8): 1651–1656. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(99)00372-6.
  6. ↑ "Public Search of Virtual Herbarium". floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

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