Andrewsianthus

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 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.

Species

Between 19, and 24 species are known:

• Andrewsianthus aberrans
• Andrewsianthus australis
• Andrewsianthus bidens
• Andrewsianthus bilobus
• Andrewsianthus carinatus
• Andrewsianthus cavifolius
• Andrewsianthus chimbuensis
• Andrewsianthus cuspidatus
• Andrewsianthus ferrugineus <small>Grolle</small>
• Andrewsianthus hodgsoniae
• Andrewsianthus jamesonii
• Andrewsianthus kilimanjaricus
• Andrewsianthus kinabaluensis
• Andrewsianthus koponenii
• Andrewsianthus marionensis
• Andrewsianthus mizutanii
• Andrewsianthus papillosus
• Andrewsianthus perigonialis
• Andrewsianthus puniceus
• Andrewsianthus recurvifolius
• Andrewsianthus scabrellus
• Andrewsianthus sphenoloboides
• Andrewsianthus squarrosus
• Andrewsianthus sundaicus
• Andrewsianthus zantenii

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