Global InformationAndrewsianthus information
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Marchantiophyta |
| Class: | Jungermanniopsida |
| Order: | Jungermanniales |
| Family: | Lophoziaceae |
| Genus: | Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust. |
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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 R.M.Schust. in Rev. Bryol. Lichénol. 30: 66 in 1961.[2]
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.[3]
- ^ "Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Andrewsianthus R.M.Schust". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ 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.