Phaeoceros

Taxobox
name = Phaeoceros

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Phaeoceros laevis" (L.) Prosk.
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Anthocerotophyta
classis = Anthocerotopsida
ordo = Anthocerotales
familia = Anthocerotaceae
genus = "Phaeoceros" Prosk.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Phaeoceros bulbiculosus" (Brot.) Prosk. "Phaeoceros dichotomus" "Phaeoceros evanidus" "Phaeoceros hallii" (Austin) Prosk. "Phaeoceros laevis" (L.) Prosk. "Phaeoceros laevis subsp. carolinianus" (Michx.) Prosk. "Phaeoceros mohrii" (Austin) Hässel "Phaeoceros novazealandicus" "Phaeoceros pearsonii" (M. Howe) Prosk. "Phaeoceros striatisporus" J. Haseg. "Phaeoceros tjipanasanus"

"Phaeoceros" is a genus of hornworts in the family Anthocerotaceae. The genus is global in its distribution. Its name means 'yellow horn', and refers to the characteristic yellow spores that the plants produce in the horn-shaped sporophyte. The yellow color of the spores is the easiest way to distinguish "Phaeoceros" from the related genus "Anthoceros", which produces spores that are dark brown to black.

The genus "Phaeoceros" was first recognized in 1951 by Johannes Max Proskauer. The type specimen is "Phaeoceros laevis". The genus is distinguished by having yellow spores, different chloroplast structure, relatively less frilliness of the thallus when compared to "Anthoceros", and a relative lack of internal cavities in "Phaeoceros".

References

* Proskauer, J. (1951). "Studies on Anthocerotales. III". "Bull. Torrey Bot. Club" 78: 331-349.

External links

* [http://vis-pc.plantbio.ohiou.edu/moss/Tomescu.htm Description and photos]