Pottiaceae
| Pottiaceae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Tortula muralis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Dicranidae |
| Order: | Pottiales |
| Family: | Pottiaceae Schimp. |
The Pottiaceae are a family of mosses. They form the most numerous moss family known, containing nearly 1500 species or more than 10% of the 10,000 to 15,000 moss species known.[1]
Genera[]
The family has five subfamilies and 83 genera.[2]
- Subfamily
- Subfamily
- Calymperastrum
- Eucladium
- Tetracoscinodon
- Tortella Lindb.
- Trichostomum
- Oxystegus
- Broth.
- Weissia
- Subfamily
- Subfamily
- Acaulon
- Aloina
- Cardot
- Chenia
- Crumia
- Hennediella
- Microbryum
- Pterygoneurum
- R. H. Zander
- Syntrichia
- Tortula
- Subfamily
References[]
- ^ William R. Buck & Bernard Goffinet (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (ed.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–123. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- ^ Wolfgang Frey, Michael Stech & Eberhard Fischer: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants (= Syllabus of Plant Families. 3). 13th edition. Borntraeger, 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8, pp. 176–183.
External links[]
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