Funariaceae

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Funariaceae
Funaria hygrometrica
Funaria hygrometrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Funariidae
Order: Funariales
Family: Funariaceae
Schwägr.
Genera

Funariaceae is a family of mosses in order Funariales.[1] There are approximately 300 species included in the family, with 200 species in Funaria and another 80 classified in Physcomitrium.[2]

The genus Goniomitrium has been recently moved from the Pottiaceae to the Funariaceae.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ McIntosh, Terry T. (2002). "Funariaceae", Flora of North America 27, 180-199. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4. 
  3. ^ Goffinet, Bernard; Norman J. Wickett, Olaf Werner, Rosa Maria Ros, A. Jonathan Shaw, & Cymon J. Cox (2007). "Distribution and Phylogenetic Significance of the 71-kb Inversion in the Plastid Genome in Funariidae (Bryophyta)". Annals of Botany 99: 747-753. 


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