Pottiaceae
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| 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 four subfamilies and 83 genera.[2]
- Subfamily Trichostomoideae
- Subfamily Barbuloideae
- Anoectangium
- Barbula
- Bellibarbula
- Bryoerythrophyllum
- Cinclidotus
- Dialytrichia
- Didymodon (e.g. Didymodon tomaculosus)
- Erythrophyllopsis
- Ganguleea
- Gertrudiella
- Gymnostomum
- Gymnostomiella
- Gyroweisia
- Hymenostyliella
- Hymenostylium
- Hyophila
- Hyophiladelphus
- Koponobryum
- Leptodontiella
- Leptodontium
- Luisierella
- Mironia
- Molendoa
- Plaubelia
- Pseudocrossidium
- Reimersia
- Rhexophyllum
- Sarconeurum (e.g. Sarconeurum glaciale)
- Splachnobryum
- Streptotrichum
- Teniolophora
- Trachyodontium
- Triquetrella
- Weisiopsis
- Subfamily Pottioideae
- Subfamily Merceyoideae
The
GBIF also lists Morinia Cardot,[3] Saitoa,[4] Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974,[5] and Spruceella Müll.Hal., 1900[6]
but with no subfamily details.
Subfamily Timmielloideae (and its two genera of Timmiella and Luisierella) have been transferred to a new family Timmiellaceae, due to molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2014.[7]
References
- ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8, pp. 176–183.
- ^ "Pottiaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "Saitoa". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ "Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ "Spruceella". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Inoue, Yuya; Tsubota, Hiromi (3 October 2014). "On the systematic position of the genus Timmiella (Dicranidae, Bryopsida) and its allied genera, with the description of a new family Timmiellaceae". Phytotaxa. 181 (3).
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