Andrewsianthus

Andrewsianthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Lophoziales
Family: Lophoziaceae
Genus: Andrewsianthus
R.M.Schust.
Species

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Andrewsianthus is a genus of liverworts in the family Lophoziaceae.

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, mainly in the Southern Hemisphere.

It was originally published by Rudolf Mathias Schuster in Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 30: 66 in 1961.

The genus name of Andrewsianthus is in honour of Albert LeRoy Andrews (1878-1962) an American professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist, known as "one of the world’s foremost bryologists and the American authority on Sphagnaceae.

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