Nowellia

Nowellia
Nowellia curvifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Marchantiophyta
Class:	Jungermanniopsida
Order:	Lophoziales
Family:	Cephaloziaceae
Genus:	Nowellia Mitt.
Species
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Nowellia is a genus of liverwort in the family Cephaloziaceae. The name of this genus is in honour of William Nowell (1880–1968), a British botanist and mycologist, who conducted researched in Trinidad and authored the book[1] Diseases of crop-plants in the Lesser Antilles (1923).[2]

Species

Nowellia includes the following species, as accepted by GBIF:[3]

• Nowellia aciliata (P.C.Chen & P.C.Wu) Mizut.
• Nowellia bicornis (Spruce) Fulford
• Nowellia borneensis (De Not.) Schiffn.
• Nowellia caledonica Stephani
• Nowellia caribbeania Fulford
• Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.
• Nowellia dominicensis Steph.
• Nowellia evansii Grolle
• Nowellia indica Pandé & K.P.Srivast.
• Nowellia langii Pearson
• Nowellia orientalis R.S.Chopra
• Nowellia pusilla Grolle
• Nowellia reedii H.Rob.
• Nowellia wrightii Grolle
• Nowellia yunckeri Fulford

References

1. 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.
2. Nowell, William; Indies (British), West (1923). "Diseases of crop-plants in the Lesser Antilles". West India Committee. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
3. "Nowellia Mitt". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 August 2022.