Noteroclada

Noteroclada is a small genus of liverworts of the Southern Hemisphere. It is classified in order Pelliales and is the only genus in the family Noterocladaceae within that order. Unlike Pellia, the other genus in the order, Noteroclada has a leafy appearance.

Noteroclada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Marchantiophyta
Class: Jungermanniopsida
Order: Pelliales
Family: Noterocladaceae
W.Frey & M.Stech
Genus: Noteroclada
Taylor ex Hooker & Wilson 1844[1]
Species
  • Noteroclada confluens (Hooker & Taylor 1844) Spruce 1885
  •  ?Noteroclada longiuscula Colenso 1887
  •  ?Noteroclada arrhiza Spruce

See text.

Synonyms
  • Androcryphia Nees 1846
  • Heteroclada Müller 1955

The species Noteroclada confluens is known primarily from the southern regions of South America, although it has been reported as far north as Costa Rica,[2] and there is a report from New Zealand.[3] A possible second species is known from South Africa.[4]

References
  1. "Part 2- Plantae (starting with Chlorophycota)". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  2. Schuster, Rudolf M. The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, volume V, pages 434-435. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).
  3. Allison, K. W. & John Child. The Liverworts of New Zealand, page 233. (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1975).
  4. Schuster, Rudolf M. The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, volume V, pages 434-435. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).


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