Dendroceros sp. Nees growing on the bark of a tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Division:
Anthocerotophyta
Class:
Anthocerotopsida
Order:
Dendrocerotales
Family:
Dendrocerotaceae
Genus:
Dendroceros Nees in Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees[1]
Type species
Dendroceros crispus
(Swartz 1788) Nees 1846
Species
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Dendroceros is a genus of hornworts in the family Dendrocerotaceae.[2] The genus contains about 51 species native to tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world.
^Gottsche, C.M.; Lindenberg, J.B.G.; Nees von Esenbeck, C.G. (1846). Synopsis Hepaticarum. p. 579.
^Renzaglia, Karen S. & Kevin C. Vaughn. (2000) "Anatomy, development and classification of hornworts", pages 1-20 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1
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