''Pellia'' is a small but widespread
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
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 ...
s in the cool and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. It is classified in
order Pelliales and is a member of the
family
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Pelliaceae within that order.
Süsswassertang, a plant grown submerged in
aquaria was once considered to be ''Pellia endiviifolia'', but is now known to be the indeterminate gametophyte of a ''Lomariopsis'' species, a type of
fern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...
.
Species
Taxonomy based on work by Söderström et al. 2016
* ''
Pellia cordaeana''
Trevisan 1877
* ''
Pellia crispa''
Kummer 1875
* ''
Pellia gottscheana''
Kreh 1909
* ''
Pellia longifolia''
Kummer 1875
* ''
Pellia undulata''
Kummer 1875
* (''Apopellia'')
Grolle 1983a
** ''
P. (A.) alpicola''
(Schuster 1991) Damsholt 2007
** ''
P. (A.) endiviifolia''
(Dickson 1801) Dumortier 1835
** ''
P. (A.) megaspora''
Schuster 1981
* (''Pellia'') Raddi 1818
** ''
P. (P.) appalachiana''
Schuster 1991
** ''
P. (P.) epiphylla''
(Linnaeus 1753) Corda 1829
*** ''
P. (P.) e. borealis''
(Lorbeer 1934) Messe 1981
*** ''
P. (P.) e. epiphylla''
Messe 1981
** ''
P. (P.) neesiana''
(Gottsche 1867) Limpricht 1876
*** ''
P. (P.) n. columbiana''
(Krajina & Brayshaw) Schuster
*** ''
P. (P.) n. neesiana''
(Gottsche 1867) Limpricht 1876
References
Pelliales
Liverwort genera
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