Sphagnopsida
| Sphagnopsida Temporal range: Permian to recent | |
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| a clump of Sphagnum, peat moss | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Sphagnopsida Ochyra |
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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] |
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References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- Shaw, A. Jonathan, 2000. "Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences" , The Bryologist 103 (2): 277-306.
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