Bryales

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Bryales
Bryum capillare
Bryum capillare
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Bryales
Families

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Bryales is an order or mosses, including the following families:

  • Aulacomniaceae
  • Bartramiaceae
  • Bryaceae
  • Leptostomataceae
  • Mniaceae
  • Orthodontiaceae
  • Phyllodrepaniaceae
  • Pseudoditrichaceae

The order used to be defined broadly to incllude the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.[1]

[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.


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