Diphysciaceae
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The Diphysciaceae is a family of mosses.[1] Members of this family are small, perennial plants. The capsule does not elongate much, and remains buried among surrounding leaves.
There are fifteen species in the family. Twelve of these species belong to the genus Diphyscium, two are placed in the southeast Asian genus Theriotia, and the final species, from Chile, is the only one in the genus Muscoflorschuetzia.[2] In 2003, Magombo proposed reclassifying all fifteen species as belonging to the genus Diphyscium.[3]
[edit] 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.
- ^ Schofield, Wilfred B. (2002). "Diphysciaceae", Flora of North America 27, 162-164. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
- ^ Magombo, Z. L. K. (2003). "Taxonomic revision of the moss family Diphysciaceae M. Fleisch. (Musci)". Journal of the Hatori Botanical Laboratory 94: 1-86.
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