Potemkin, A.D. & A.A.
Vilnet. 2021. Reappraisal of Gymnocolea and description of a
new genus Rudolgaea (Anastrophyllaceae, Marchantiophyta)
Arctoa (2021) 30: 138–148
doi: 10.15298/arctoa.30.15
A review of the taxonomic composition
of the genus Gymnocolea is provided. Among 15 species attributed to Gymnocolea,
only 3 species are recognized within the genus. Their morphological and
molecular analyses by rbcL, trnL-F cpDNA and ITS1-2 nrDNA
sequences resulted in the transfer of G. borealis and G. fascinifera in
a new genus Rudolgaea named after Rudolf M. Schuster and Olga M.
Schuster. Thus, Gymnocolea appears to be the monospecific genus with
only G. inflata.