Hypnaceae
| Hypnaceae | |
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| Hypnum cupressiforme | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Bryidae |
| Order: | Hypnales |
| Family: | Hypnaceae Schimp. |
| Genera | |
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See Classification | |
Hypnaceae is a large family of moss with broad worldwide occurrence[1] in the class Bryopsida, subclass Bryidae and order Hypnales. Genera include Hypnum, Phyllodon, and Taxiphyllum.
Ecology[]
Some of the family species occur on the floor of Canadian boreal forests; an example of this occurrence is within the black spruce/feathermoss climax forest, often having moderately dense canopy and featuring a forest floor of feathermosses including, Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi and Ptilium crista-castrensis.[2]
Classification[]
The family Hypanaceae includes the following genera:
- Acritodon H. Rob.
- Andoa Ochyra
- Z.Iwats., H.P.Ramsay & Fife
- Ignatov & Ochyra
- Breidleria Loeske
- Bryocrumia L. E. Anderson
- Ireland
- W. R. Buck
- Campylophyllum (Schimp.) M. Fleisch.
- Ando & Higuchi
- Chrysohypnum (Hampe) G. Roth
- Herzog
- M. Fleisch.
- Dixon
- Ireland
- M. Fleisch.
- (Broth.) M. Fleisch.
- Mitt.
- H. A. Crum
- Broth.
- M. Fleisch.
- Ando
- W. Kim & T. Yamag.
- Dixon & P. de la Varde
- Broth.
- Broth.
- Broth.
- Dixon & Sakurai
- W. R. Buck
- Bruch & Schimp.
- Hypnum Hedw.
- W. R. Buck
- B.H. Allen
- Broth.
- Dixon
- M. Fleisch.
- Mahua W. R. Buck
- M. Fleisch.
- Henn.
- Dixon & P. de la Varde
- S.He
- Phyllodon Bruch & Schimp.
- Broth.
- Cardot
- Z. Iwats. & Glime
- (M. Fleisch.) Broth.
- Renauld & Cardot
- M. Fleisch.
- Dixon
- Broth.
- R. S. Williams
- Mitt.
- Higuchi & Deguchi
- Taxiphyllum M. Fleisch.
- Vesicularia (Müll. Hal.) Müll. Hal.
- Bizot & Lewinsky
See also[]
- Feathermoss
References[]
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
- ITIS Report. 1999. Family: Hypnaceae
Line notes[]
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