Pottiaceae

Pottiaceae
Tortula muralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Pottiales
Family: Pottiaceae
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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]

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

  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).


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