Polytrichaceae
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| Polytrichaceae Temporal range:
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| Polytrichum commune | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Polytrichopsida Doweld |
| Order: | Polytrichales M. Fleisch. |
| Family: | Polytrichaceae Schwägr. |
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Polytrichaceae is a common family of
dioicous. Another characteristic that identifies them is that they have from 32 to 64 peristome teeth in their sporangium
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Classification
class Polytrichopsids
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| The phylogenetic position of the Polytrichaceae among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.[1][2] |
Genera
- Alophosia
- Atrichopsis
- Atrichum
- Bartramiopsis
- Dawsonia
- Dendroligotrichum
- Hebantia
- Itatiella
- Lyellia
- Meiotrichum
- Notoligotrichum
- Oligotrichum
- Plagioracelopus
- Pogonatum
- Polytrichadelphus
- Polytrichastrum
- Polytrichum
- Pseudatrichum
- Psilopilum
- Steereobryon
Extinct genera
- †Eopolytrichum Konopka et al., 1997 Cretaceous (Campanian); Gaillard Formation, Georgia, USA
- †Meantoinea Bippus et al., 2017 Cretaceous (Valanginian); Apple Bay locality, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- †Polytrichites Britton, 1926 Miocene; Latah Formation, Washington, USA[3]
References
- ISBN 9780521872256.
- ISBN 1-930723-38-5.
- doi:10.3133/pp140A.
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