''Andrewsianthus'' is a genus of
liverwort
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of g ...
s in the family
Lophoziaceae
Lophoziaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other l ...
.
Species include:
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Andrewsianthus aberrans''
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Andrewsianthus australis''
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Andrewsianthus bidens''
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Andrewsianthus bilobus''
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Andrewsianthus cavifolius''
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Andrewsianthus cuspidatus''
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Andrewsianthus ferrugineus
''Andrewsianthus ferrugineus'' is a species of liverworts in the family Lophoziaceae. It is found in Bhutan and Nepal. It grows on tree trunks in forests. It is threatened by deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the remova ...
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Grolle
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Andrewsianthus hodgsoniae''
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Andrewsianthus jamesonii''
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Andrewsianthus kilimanjaricus''
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Andrewsianthus koponenii''
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Andrewsianthus perigonialis''
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Andrewsianthus puniceus''
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Andrewsianthus scabrellus''
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Andrewsianthus sphenoloboides''
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Andrewsianthus squarrosus''
The genus name of ''Andrewsianthus'' is in honour of
Albert LeRoy Andrews
Albert LeRoy Andrews (1878–1961) was a professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist, known as "one of the world’s foremost bryologists and the American authority on Sphagnaceae." From 1922 to 1923 he was the president of the Su ...
(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
The Sphagnaceae is a family of moss with only one living genus ''Sphagnum
''Sphagnum'' is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, peat moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term ...
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References
Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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