''Clevea'' is a genus of
liverwort
Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry ...
s belonging to the family
Cleveaceae
Cleveaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Marchantiales.
Genera:
* '' Athalamia'' Falc.
* ''Clevea
''Clevea'' is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Cleveaceae.
The genus was first described by Sextus Otto Lindb ...
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The genus was first described by
Sextus Otto Lindberg
Sextus Otto Lindberg (29 March 1835 – 20 February 1889) was a Swedish physician and botanist, known as a bryologist.
Life
He was born in Stockholm, and educated in Uppsala. He worked in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empir ...
in 1869.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species:
* ''
Clevea hyalina'' (Sommerf.) Lindb.
References
Marchantiales
Marchantiales genera
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