Costesia

Costesia is a genus of moss in the family Gigaspermaceae. The genus contains a single species Costesia spongiosa known only from South America,^[1]

Costesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Order:	Gigaspermales
Family:	Gigaspermaceae
Genus:	Costesia Thér.
Species:	C. spongiosa
Binomial name
Costesia spongiosa Thér.

The genus name of Costesia is in honour of Nathaniel Costes (1875 - 1924?), a French clergyman, naturalist and lecturer at the Collegio der Franziskaner in Santiago, Chile.^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Marie Hypolite Irénée Thériot in Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. Vol.21 on page 12 in 1917.

Funaria macrocarpa (Funariaceae) was found to be an earlier name for Costesia spongiosa (Gigaspermaceae), it was then proposed in 2009, that the species be re-named as Costesia macrocarpa (Schimp.) Cuvertino, Miserere and Buffa. With Pottia macrocarpa Schimp another synonym.^[3]

References

1. Robinson, H.; C. Delgadillo M (1973). "Neosharpiella, a New Genus of Musci from High Elevations in Mexico and South America". The Bryologist. 76 (7): 536–540. doi:10.2307/3241413. JSTOR 3241413.
2. 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.
3. Santoni, Jorge Cuvertino; Miserere, Luca; Buffa, Giorgio (2009). "Costesia macrocarpa comb. nov. for Funaria macrocarpa (Gigaspermaceae)". The Bryologist. 112 (2): 287–289.