Apotreubia

Apotreubia is a genus of liverworts in the family Treubiaceae.^[1] There are four species, including: Apotreubia nana, which is found in subalpine New Guinea,^[2] and Apotreubia pusilla, which has a disjunct distribution between eastern Asia (Himalayas to Japan) and British Columbia.^[3][4]

Apotreubia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Marchantiophyta
Class:	Haplomitriopsida
Order:	Treubiales
Family:	Treubiaceae
Genus:	Apotreubia S.Hatt & Mizut. 1967
Species
Apotreubia hortoniae Konstant. Apotreubia nana (S.Hatt. & Inoue) S.Hatt. & Mizut. Apotreubia pusilla (R.M.Schust.) Grolle Apotreubia yunnanensis Higuchi

The genus name of Apotreubia is in honour of Melchior Treub (1851–1910), who was a Dutch botanist. He worked at the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Buitenzorg on the island of Java, south of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, gaining renown for his work on tropical flora.^[5]

References

1. Crandall-Stotler, Barbara; Stotler, Raymond E. (2000). "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". In A. Jonathan Shaw; Bernard Goffinet (eds.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–70. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
2. Schuster, Rudolf M. (1983). "Phytogeography of the Bryophyta". Pages 463–626 in R. M. Schuster (ed.), New Manual of Bryology (Japan: Hattori Botanical Laboratory). ISBN 49381633045. OCLC 10792214.
3. Schuster, Rudolf M. (1992). The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America. Vol. V. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. p. 333. ISBN 0-914868-20-9.
4. Soderstrom; et al. (2016). "World checklist of hornworts and liverworts". PhytoKeys (59): 1–826. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261. PMC 4758082. PMID 26929706.
5. 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. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.