Andrewsianthus Explained

Andrewsianthus is a genus of liverworts in the family Lophoziaceae.

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, mainly in the southern hemisphere.^[1]

It was originally published by Rudolf Mathias Schuster in Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 30: 66 in 1961.^{[2] [3]}

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.^[4]

Species

Between 19,^[2] and 24 species are known:^{[1] [5] [6]}

• Andrewsianthus aberrans
• Andrewsianthus australis
• Andrewsianthus bidens
• Andrewsianthus bilobus
• Andrewsianthus carinatus
• Andrewsianthus cavifolius
• Andrewsianthus chimbuensis
• Andrewsianthus cuspidatus
• Andrewsianthus ferrugineus Grolle
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust. . www.gbif.org . 7 July 2023 . en.
2. Web site: Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust. . www.worldfloraonline.org . 7 July 2023.
3. Andrewsianthus in Studies in Lophoziaceae. I. The genera Anastrophyllum and Sphenolobus and their segregates. Schuster, R.M.. 1961. Revue bryologique et lichenologique. 66 . 30.
4. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.
5. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:583936#tab_classification Andrewsianthus.
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/B/Jungermanniaceae/Andrewsianthus/ Andrewsianthus.