''Herzogiella'' is a genus of
mosses belonging to the family
Hypnaceae
Hypnaceae is a large family of moss with broad worldwide occurrence in the class Bryopsida, subclass Bryidae and order Hypnales. Genera include ''Hypnum'', ''Phyllodon'', and ''Taxiphyllum''.
Ecology
Some of the family species occur on the flo ...
.
The genus name of ''Herzogiella'' is in honour of
Theodor Carl Julius Herzog (1880– 1961), who was a German
bryologist and
phytogeographer.
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
Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus in Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed.2, vol.11 on page 466 in 1925.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''
Herzogiella adscendens''
Iwatsuki & W.B.Schofield, 1973
* ''
Herzogiella boliviana''
Fleischer, 1925
* ''
Herzogiella cylindricarpa''
(Cardot) Z. Iwats.
* ''
Herzogiella letestui''
(Dixon & P. de la Varde) Ando
* ''
Herzogiella perrobusta''
(Broth.) Z. Iwats.
* ''
Herzogiella renitens''
(Mitt.) Z. Iwats.
* ''
Herzogiella seligeri''
(Brid.) Z. Iwats.
* ''
Herzogiella striatella''
(Brid.) Z. Iwats.
* ''
Herzogiella turfacea''
(Lindb.) Z. Iwats.
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q17290014
Hypnaceae
Moss genera