Biology:Gradsteinia

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Short description: Genus of mosses

Gradsteinia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Hypnales
Family: Amblystegiaceae
Genus: Gradsteinia
Ochyra

Gradsteinia is a genus of moss in family Amblystegiaceae.[1]

The genus name of Gradsteinia is in honour of Stephan Robbert Gradstein (b.1943) a Dutch botanist (Bryology) and Professor of Botany at the University of Göttingen.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Ryszard Ochyra in Trop. Bryol. vol.3 on page 19 in 1990.

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete), Gradsteinia torrenticola, Ochyra, C.Schmidt & Bültmann

References

  1. Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN:0-521-66097-1.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5591993 entry