Published December 2, 2025 | Version v1
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Neckera Hedw.

  • 1. National Biodiversity Collection, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31 - 512 Kraków, Poland
  • 2. Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic & Institute of Biology, University of Opole, Oleska 48, PL- 45 - 052 Opole, Poland
  • 3. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA

Description

Neckera Hedw., Spec. Musc. Frond.: 200. 1801 nom. cons.

Neckera [unranked] Cryptopodia Röhl., Borkhausen’s Ringen: 148. 1808 ≡ Neckera [unranked] Distichia Brid., Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 4: xvi, 137. 1819 ≡ Distichia Brid., Bryol. Univ. 1: xxxvii. 1826; 2: 238, 757, 787, 811. 1827 ≡ Neckera subg. Distichia (Brid.) Brid., Bryol. Univ. 2: 238, 757. 1827 ≡ Cryptopodium Fürnr., Flora 12 (2, Beil. 1): 81. 1827 ≡ Braunia Hornsch., Jahrb. Wiss. Krit. 1828 (59 / 60): 467. 1828, nom. illeg. ≡ Neckera subg. Cryptopodia (Röhl.) Rchb., Consp., Regn. Veg. 1: 33. 1828 ≡ Cryptopodia (Röhl.) Fürnr., Flora 12 (2, Ergänzugsbl.): 49. 1829 ≡ Neckera sect. Distichia (Brid.) Müll. Hal., Linnaea 18: 707. 1844 ≡ Eleutera P. Beauv. ex Stuntz, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 202. 1900, nom. illeg. ≡ Neckera sect. Cryptopodia (Röhl.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1 (3): 843. 1906. Typus: Neckera pennata (vide Schimper 1860: t. p., 732).

= Alsia Sull., Not. Sp. Moss.: 16. 1855. Typus: Alsia californica (Hook. & Arn.) Sull. (Neckera californica Hook. & Arn.)

= Neckera [unranked] Douglasiella Kindb., Eur. N. Amer. Bryin. 1: 15. 1897 ≡ Neckera sect. Douglasiella (Kindb.) Paris, Index Bryol. Suppl.: 132. 1900. Typus: Neckera douglasii Hook. (vide Wijk et al. 1964: 432).

Notes

Published as part of Ochyra, Ryszard, Plášek, Vítězslav & Brinda, John C., 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatural history of Neckera (Bryophyta, Neckeraceae), including reinstatement of Rhystophyllum, the correct name for a segregate of this genus, pp. 59-80 in PhytoKeys 267 on pages 59-80, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.267.171699

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hedw.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Order
Leucodontales
Family
Neckeraceae
Genus
Neckera
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Schimper WPh (1860) Synopsis muscorum europaeorum praemissa introduction de elementis bryologicis tractante. Sumptibus Librariae E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, vi + lix + 733 pp. [+ 1 map + pls. 1-8]
  • Wijk van der R, Margadant WD, Florschütz PA (1964) Index muscorum. Vol. 3 (Hypnum - O). Regnum Vegetabile 33. International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Utrecht – Netherlands, 529 pp.