''Sandeothallus'' is a small
genus
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of
liverworts restricted to
East Asia
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. It is classified in the
order
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* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
of
Pallaviciniales
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Taxonomy
* Pallaviciniineae Schuster 1984
** Hymenophytaceae Schuster 1963
*** ''Hymenophyton'' Dumortier 1835 Umbraculum'' Gottsche 1861 non Schumacher 1817 non Kuntze 1891]
** Moerckiaceae Stotler ...
and is the only member of the
Family (biology), family, Sandeothallaceae within that order.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Rudolf Mathias Schuster in Nova Hedwigia vol.36 on pages 10 and 15 in 1982.
The genus name of ''Sandeothallus'' is in honour of Cornelius Marinus van der Sande Lacoste (1815–1887), who was a Dutch physician,
botanist
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(Bryology). He practised medicine in 1843 in
Amsterdam
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.
References
Pallaviciniales
Liverwort genera
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