Pottiaceae
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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
[edit]The family has four subfamilies and 83 genera.[2]
- Subfamily Trichostomoideae
- Bryoceuthospora
- Calymperastrum
- Calyptopogon
- Chionoloma
- Eucladium
- Leptobarbula
- Neophoenix
- Pachyneuropsis
- Pleurochaete
- Pottiopsis
- Pseudosymblepharis
- Quaesticula
- Streptocalypta
- Tetracoscinodon
- Tetrapterum
- Tortella Lindb.
- Trachycarpidium
- Trichostomum
- Oxystegus
- Tuerckheima Broth.
- Uleobryum
- Weissia
- Weissiodicranum
- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "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).
External links
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