Meesia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Splachnales
- Family
- Meesiaceae
- Genus
- Meesia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Meesia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Meesia
Meesia is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Meesiaceae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
The genus name of Meesia is in honour of David Meese (1723–1770), who was a Dutch botanist, notable for his authorship of the Flora frisica in 1760.
The genus was first described by Johann Hedwig in 1801.
...Meesia in languages:
- Estonian
- tahuksamblad
- German
- Bruchmoose
- Lithuanian
- Mezija
- Polish
- parzęchlin
- Swedish
- svanmossor
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