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Sauteria
Scientific Name: Sauteria
Family: Cleveaceae
Category: Liverwort
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Sauteria: A Genus of Liverworts
Sauteria is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Cleveaceae.
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Scientific Name: Sauteria (Nees) Nees
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Hepatophyta
- Class: Marchantiopsida
- Order: Marchantiales
- Family: Cleveaceae
Synonym: Sauteria berteroana (for Sauteria chilensis)
Species
- Accepted species include:
- Sauteria alpina (Nees) Nees (Snow Lungwort)
- Sauteria chilensis (Lindenb. ex Mont.) Grolle
- Sauteria spongiosa (Kashyap) S. Hatt.
- Other Sauteria spp.
Distribution and Habitat
Sauteria species have been found in various regions, including:
- India (Sauteria spongiosa)
- Alaska
- Austria
- Balkan Peninsula
- Beringian Arctic
- Canada
- Central Asia
- China (mainland)
- Continental USA
- Czecho-Slovakia
- East Siberia
- Russian Far East (Sauteria alpina)
Morphological Characteristics
Sauteria are nonvascular plants.
Genetic Information
- Sauteria alpina has an RNA polymerase C1 (rpoC1) gene, partial cds chloroplast, with a 452 bp linear DNA sequence (KT357012.1 GI:972313474).
- Sauteria alpina also has a 23S ribosomal RNA.
Ecological Role
Sauteria are liverworts (Class Marchantiopsida).
Further Information
- The PLANTS Database, database (version 4.0.4 ), National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA.
- Tropicos
- Andean Bryo
- Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
- NYBG Virtual Herbarium
- JSTOR Plant Science
- TERMIUM (Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic data bank)
- Discover Life