Andreaeobryum

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Andreaeobryum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Andreaeobryopsida
(B. M. Murray) Goffinet & W. R. Buck
Order: Andreaeobryales
B. M. Murray
Family: Andreaeobryaceae
Steere & B. M. Murray
Genus: Andreaeobryum
Steere & B. M. Murray
Species: A. macrosporum
Binomial name
Andreaeobryum macrosporum
Steere & B. M. Murray

Andreaeobryum is a genus of moss with a single species Andreaeobryum macrosporum, endemic to Alaska and western Canada.[1] The genus is placed as a separate family, order and class among the mosses.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eckel, Patricia M. 2007. "Andreaeobryaceae", pages 108-110 in Flora of North America, volume 27.
  2. ^ 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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