Chapter Twenty-one: An Etymology of Australian Bryophyte Genera. 1 – Liverworts and Hornworts

An etymology of Australian bryophyte genera. 2 – Mosses

“…Most of the names of bryophyte genera are derived from Greek and Latin stems but also often from personal names, some of which have been obscured by the passage of time. This paper sets out as much as can be established about the true etymology of the names of all moss genera accepted for Australia (Flora of Australia 2006), and complements a similar paper on Australian liverwort and hornwort genera (Meagher 2008). For the sake of regional completeness I have also included moss genera known from New Zealand as listed by Fife (1995).…”

Morphological Diversity of Complex Thalloid Liverwort Genera of Sri Lanka

“…similar to a cup (Bischler-Causse et al, 2005;Meagher, 2008). Srivastava and Dixit (1996) treat 11 species under the genus in which the two species, Cyathodium cavernarum Kunze and C. foetidissimum Schiffn.…”

“…Fresh specimens of Reboulia have a distinct aroma and a sweet taste when crushed. The generic name is dedicated by the author to Eugen de Reboul (1781-1851), an Italian botanist from Florence (Little, 1949;Bischler-Causse et al, 2005;Meagher, 2008). The only recorded species in Sri Lanka under the genus is Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi, the type of the genus (Bischler, 2004;Bischler-Causse et al, 2005;Long and Rubasinghe, 2014).…”