''Calypogeia rhynchophylla'' is a species 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 ...
in the family
Calypogeiaceae
Calypogeiaceae is a family of liverworts. This type of plant is a calcifuge.
Genera:
* ''Calypogeia'' Raddi (101)
* '' Cincinnulus'' (1)
* '' Eocalypogeia'' (R.M.Schust.) R.M.Schust. (4)
* '' Kantius'' (4)
* '' Metacalypogeia'' (S.Hatt.) Inou ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Costa Rica
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. Its natural
habitat
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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s.
References
Calypogeiaceae
Flora of Costa Rica
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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