Wardia

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Wardia hygrometrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Seligeriales
Family: Wardiaceae
W. H. Welch
Genus: Wardia
Harv. & Hook.
Species: W. hygrometrica
Binomial name
Wardia hygrometrica
Harv. & Hook.

Wardiaceae is a monotypic family of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. It contains only the species Wardia hygrometrica, "an aquatic moss endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa."[1] Because it is an aquatic moss, it was first classified in the Fontinalaceae, but molecular studies have shown that it is more closely related to the Seligeriaceae.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hedderson, Terry A., Cymon J. Cox, & J. George Gibbins. 1999. Pylogenetic Relationships of the Wardiaceae (Musci); Evidence from 18s rRNA and rps4 Gene Sequences. The Bryologist 102 (1): 26-31.
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