Rhizogoniales

Rhizogoniales
Pyrrhobryum parramattense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Rhizogoniales
(M. Fleisch.) Goffinet & W.R. Buck

Rhizogoniales is a monotypic order of mosses in the Bryopsida.[1]

Description

Most of the taxa within the order are pleurocarpous species growing in tufts.

Taxonomy

The sole family included in the order is Rhizogoniaceae.[2]

Genera included in the Rhizogoniaceae are:

  • Calomnion
  • Cryptopodium
  • Goniobryum
  • Pyrrhobryum
  • Rhizogonium

References

  1. Bell, N., Quandt, D., O'Brien, T., & Newton, A. (2007). Taxonomy and Phylogeny in the Earliest Diverging Pleurocarps: Square Holes and Bifurcating Pegs. The Bryologist, 110(3), 533-560. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20110887Copy
  2. Bernard Goffinet – Bryology (and Lichenology)
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