Overview
Bryidae is an important subclass of . It is common throughout the whole world. Members have a double peristome with alternating tooth segments.
Classification
The classification of the Bryidae.[1]
Superorder: Bryanae
Superorder: Rhizogonianae
- Rhizogoniales
Superorder: Hypnanae
- Hookeriales
- Hypnales
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Taxonomy
The Subclass Bryidae is a member of the Class Bryopsida. Here is the complete "parentage" of Bryidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
The Subclass Bryidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Order (15): Archidiales · Bryales · Buxbaumiales · Dicranales · Encalyptales · Fissidentales · Funariales · Grimmiales · Hookeriales · Hypnobryales · Isobryales · Orthotrichales · Pottiales · Seligeriales · Splachnales
Orders
Archidiales
Archidium is a genus of about 35 species of ; it is the only genus in the family Archidiaceae and order Archidiales. [more]
Bryales
Bryales is an or mosses, including the following families: [more]
Buxbaumiales
Dicranales
Dicranales is an of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. [more]
Encalyptales
Encalyptaceae is a of mosses in order Encalyptales. It includes three genera. [more]
Fissidentales
Fissidentales is an of mosses. [more]
Funariales
Funariales is an of mosses. [more]
Grimmiales
Grimmiales is an of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. [more]
Hookeriales
Hypnobryales
Isobryales
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae is a family of , order Orthotrichales, many of which are epiphytic. [more]
Pottiales
Pottiales is an of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. [more]
Seligeriales
Seligeriales is a of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. [more]
Splachnales
At least 23 species and subspecies belong to the Order Splachnales.
More info about the Order Splachnales may be found here.
References
- ^ Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
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