''Jamesoniella'' is a genus of
liverworts
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 ge ...
in the family
Adelanthaceae
Adelanthaceae 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 ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
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by
Richard Spruce
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and
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in London Cat.
Brit. Moss. Hepat. ed.2 on page 25 in 1881 and then in Krypt.-Fl. (Rabenhorst) ed. 3, 6: 858 in 1957.
The genus name of ''Jamesoniella'' is in honour of
William Jameson (1796–1873) was a
Scottish
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Ecuadorian botanist
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.
Species
It contains the following species, as accepted by
GBIF
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;
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Jamesoniella allionii''
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Jamesoniella boliviana''
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Jamesoniella convoluta''
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Jamesoniella fleischeri''
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Jamesoniella fragillima
''Jamesoniella'' is a genus of liverworts in the family Adelanthaceae.
The genus was circumscribed by Richard Spruce and Frederick Arnold Lees in London Cat.
Brit. Moss. Hepat. ed.2 on page 25 in 1881 and then in Krypt.-Fl. (Rabenhorst) ed. 3, 6 ...
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Jamesoniella labrifolia''
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Jamesoniella latifolia''
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Jamesoniella lieboldiana''
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Jamesoniella limbata''
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Jamesoniella minutissima''
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Jamesoniella monodon''
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Jamesoniella papillifolia''
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Jamesoniella perverrucosa''
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Jamesoniella pulchra''
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Jamesoniella rehmannii''
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Jamesoniella rotundifolia''
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Jamesoniella rufescens
''Jamesoniella'' is a genus of liverworts in the family Adelanthaceae.
The genus was circumscribed by Richard Spruce and Frederick Arnold Lees in London Cat.
Brit. Moss. Hepat. ed.2 on page 25 in 1881 and then in Krypt.-Fl. (Rabenhorst) ed. 3, 6 ...
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Jamesoniella undulifolia''
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Jamesoniella verrucosa
''Jamesoniella'' is a genus of Marchantiophyta, liverworts in the family Adelanthaceae.
The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Richard Spruce and Frederick Arnold Lees in London Cat.
Brit. Moss. Hepat. ed.2 on page 25 in 1881 ...
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References
Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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