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Classification System: Goffinet et al. (down to genus level)

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Bryophyta
Classis: Bryopsida
Subclassis: Bryidae
Superordo: Hypnanae
Ordo: Hypnales

Familia: Amblystegiaceae
Genus: Gradsteinia
Species: G. andicola – G. torrenticola
Name
Gradsteinia Ochyra, 1990

Gradsteinia is a genus of moss in family Amblystegiaceae.[1]

The genus name of Gradsteinia is in honour of Stephan Robbert Gradstein (b.1943) a Dutch botanist (Bryology) and Professor of Botany at the University of Göttingen.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Ryszard Ochyra in Trop. Bryol. vol.3 on page 19 in 1990.

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete), Gradsteinia torrenticola, Ochyra, C.Schmidt & Bültmann
References

Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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