Sphaerocarpos
Sphaerocarpos is a genus of plants known as bottle liverworts. There are eight or nine species in this genus.[3]
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Classification
Sphaerocarpos is one of two genera in the Sphaerocarpaceae. The following species are currently recognized:
- Sphaerocarpos cristatus
- Sphaerocarpos donnelli
- Sphaerocarpos drewei
- Sphaerocarpos hians
- Sphaerocarpos michelii
- Sphaerocarpos muccilloi
- Sphaerocarpos stipitatus
- Sphaerocarpos texanus
References
- Micheli, P. A. (1729). Nova Plantarum Genera juxta Tournefortii methodum disposita. Florence. p. 4, plate iii.
- Boehmer, G. R. (1760). Ludwig, C. G. (ed.). Definitiones Generum Plantarum (3rd ed.). p. 501.
- Schuster, Rudolf M. (1992). The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America. V. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. pp. 811–813. ISBN 0-914868-20-9.
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