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Leptolejeunea

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Leptolejeunea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Porellales
Family: Lejeuneaceae
Subfamily: Lejeuneoideae
Tribe: Lejeuneeae
Subtribe: Leptolejeuneinae
Heinrichs & Schäf-Verw.
Genus: Leptolejeunea
(Spruce) Steph.[1]

Leptolejeunea is a genus of liverwort in family Lejeuneaceae.

It has a cosmopolitan distribution mainly in the southern hemisphere.[2]

The genus name of Leptolejeunea is derived from lepton from the Greek λεπτός (meaning "small") and also Lejeunea which is in honour of Alexandre Louis Simon Lejeune (1779–1858), who was a Belgian physician and botanist.[3] Lejeunea was the original genus of this type of liverworts published in 1820.

Species

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World Flora Online lists up to 47 species.[4] Although, 74 species are accepted by GBIF (as of July 2023):[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hedwigia 30: 270. 1891.
  2. ^ a b "Leptolejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. ^ "Leptolejeunea (Spruce) Steph". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 1 July 2023.