Group: Liverwort Rank: genus Kind: Name of a new Taxon

Authors:

Caster, Kenneth Edward
Brooks, Harold Kelly

Published In: Bulletins of American Paleontology 36(157): 183, pl. 23, f. 5. 1956. (Bull. Amer. Paleontol.)
Annotation: Cestites was originally described as a comb of a ctenophore. See Retallack, Palaeobotanist 68(1–2): 187. 2019 for a revised diagnosis and its placement in the Marchantiaceae.
Type Specimens

• T: Cestites mirabilis Caster & H.K. Brooks.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• subkingdom:  Bryobiotina Trevis.
• division:  Marchantiophyta Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.
• class:  Marchantiopsida Smyth & L.C.R. Smyth
• subclass:  Marchantiidae Engl.
• order:  Marchantiales Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  Marchantiaceae Chevall.