Sphagnopsida

Sphagnopsida
Temporal range: Permian to recent
a clump of Sphagnum, peat moss
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Sphagnopsida
Ochyra
Orders

Protosphagnales †
Sphagnales

The Sphagnopsida includes a single subclass Sphagnidae, with two orders. The order Sphagnales contains four living genera: Sphagnum, with all but three of the species, and Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, and Flatbergium, each with a single species. The Protosphagnales contains a single fossil species.

The phylogenetic position of the Sphagnopsida among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.[1][2]


Takakiopsida


Sphagnopsida




Andreaeopsida


Andreaeobryopsida



Oedipodiopsida



Tetraphidopsida


Polytrichopsida


Bryopsida







References

  1. ^ Goffinet, B.; W. R. Buck; & A. J. Shaw (2008). "Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta". In Bernard Goffinet & A. Jonathan Shaw (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. ISBN 9780521872256. 
  2. ^ Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004). "Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes (Missouri Botanical Garden Press) 98: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.