''Garovaglia'' is a genus of mosses in the family
Ptychomniaceae.
The genus name of ''Garovaglia'' is in honour of Santo Garovaglio (1805 - 1882), who was an Italian botanist (Mycology and Bryology), Professor of Natural History at the
University of Pavia
The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...
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The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
by
Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon
Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, in Padua – 8 April 1897, in Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogam, cryptogamic flora.
During his career, he was a professor of natural history in Padua. I ...
in Caratt. Tre Nuov. Gen. Collem. Vol.1 in 1853, then in Biblioth. Lichenol. Vol.107 on page 41 in 2012 (Secondary Literature).
Species
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Garovaglia angustifolia'' - ''
Garovaglia aristata'' - ''
Garovaglia baeuerlenii'' - ''
Garovaglia binsteadii'' - ''
Garovaglia brassii'' - ''
Garovaglia compressa'' - ''
Garovaglia crispa'' - ''
Garovaglia crispata'' - ''
Garovaglia eberhardtii'' - ''
Garovaglia elegans'' - ''
Garovaglia luzonensis'' - ''
Garovaglia mujuensis'' - ''
Garovaglia plicata'' (type) - ''
Garovaglia plumosa'' - ''
Garovaglia powellii'' - ''
Garovaglia robbinsii'' - ''
Garovaglia subelegans'' - ''
Garovaglia tortifolia'' - ''
Garovaglia zantenii''
References
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''Garovaglia''at
Tropicos
Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical realm (Central, and South America). It is maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and was established over 25 years ago. The data ...
Moss genera
Ptychomniales
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