''Douinia'' 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

Scapaniaceae Scapaniaceae is a family of liverworts in order Jungermanniales Jungermanniales is the largest Order (biology), order of Marchantiophyta, liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of t ...

. The species of this genus are found in Eurasia and Northern America. The genus name of ''Douinia'' is in honour of Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944), who was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

Christian Erasmus Otterstrøm Jensen Christian Erasmus Otterstrøm (Otterström) Jensen (1859–1941) was a Danish pharmacist and botanist, for decades a leading bryologist in Scandinavia. He studied botany and pharmaceutics at the University of Copenhagen and the Pharmaceutical ...

in Commentat. Biol. Vol.3 (Issue 1) on page 13 in 1928.

Species

* '' Douinia imbricata'' (M.Howe) Konstant. & Vilnet * '' Douinia ovata'' (Dicks.) H.Buch * '' Douinia plicata'' (Lindb.) Konstant. & Vilnet

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q13575051 Scapaniaceae Jungermanniales genera