Pottiaceae

Family of mosses

Pottiaceae

Tortula muralis
Scientific classification
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

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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
* Acaulon
* Aloina
* Aloinella Cardot
* Chenia
* Crossidium
* Crumia
* Dolotortula
* Globulinella
* Hennediella
* Hilpertia
* Ludorugbya
* Microbryum
* Microcrossidium
* Phascopsis
* Pterygoneurum
* Sagenotortula
* Saitobryum
* Stegonia
* Stonea R. H. Zander
* Streptopogon
* Syntrichia
* Tortula
* Willia
* Subfamily Merceyoideae
* Scopelophila

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

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ "Pottiaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
4. ^ "Saitoa". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
5. ^ "Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
6. ^ "Spruceella". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
7. ^ 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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* Pottiaceae

Taxon identifiers

Pottiaceae|

* Wikidata: Q150302
* Wikispecies: Pottiaceae
* CoL: 627MZ
* EoL: 3881
* EPPO: 1PTTF
* FloraBase: 23071
* FNA: 10727
* GBIF: 4671
* iNaturalist: 67833
* IRMNG: 115983
* ITIS: 16620
* NBN: NHMSYS0000310493
* NCBI: 38586
* NZOR: bbac6d0e-881f-48f1-aea3-4e949ce54107
* Open Tree of Life: 947452
* Plazi: 255A5FE4-E383-ECF1-50E9-9910AEC8F749
* Tropicos: 35002792
* WFO: wfo-7000000496

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