Pottiaceae

The Pottiaceae are a family of mosses. They form the most numerous moss family known, containing nearly 1500 species or more than 10% of the 10,000 to 15,000 moss species known.[1]

Pottiaceae
Tortula muralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Pottiales
Family: Pottiaceae
Schimp.

Genera

The family has five subfamilies and 83 genera.[2]

  • Subfamily Timmielloideae
    • Timmiella
  • Subfamily Trichostomoideae
    • Bryoceuthospora
    • Calymperastrum
    • Calyptopogon
    • Chionoloma
    • Eucladium
    • Leptobarbula
    • Neophoenix
    • Pachyneuropsis
    • Pleurochaete
    • Pottiopsis
    • Pseudosymblepharis
    • Quaesticula
    • Streptocalypta
    • Tetracoscinodon
    • Tetrapterum
    • Tortella Lindb.
    • Trachycarpidium
    • Trichostomum
    • Oxystegus
    • Tuerckheima Broth.
    • Uleobryum
    • Weissia
    • Weissiodicranum
  • Subfamily Barbuloideae
    • Anoectangium
    • Barbula
    • Bellibarbula
    • Bryoerythrophyllum
    • Cinclidotus
    • Dialytrichia
    • Didymodon (e.g. Didymodon tomaculosus)
    • Erythrophyllopsis
    • Ganguleea
    • Gertrudiella
    • Gymnostomum
    • Gymnostomiella
    • Gyroweisia
    • Hymenostyliella
    • Hymenostylium
    • Hyophila
    • Hyophiladelphus
    • Koponobryum
    • Leptodontiella
    • Leptodontium
    • Luisierella
    • Mironia
    • Molendoa
    • Plaubelia
    • Pseudocrossidium
    • Reimersia
    • Rhexophyllum
    • Sarconeurum (e.g. Sarconeurum glaciale)
    • Splachnobryum
    • Streptotrichum
    • Teniolophora
    • Trachyodontium
    • Triquetrella
    • Weisiopsis
  • Subfamily Pottioideae
    • Acaulon
    • Aloina
    • Aloinella Cardot
    • Chenia
    • Crossidium
    • Crumia
    • Dolotortula
    • Globulinella
    • Hennediella
    • Hilpertia
    • Ludorugbya
    • Microbryum
    • Microcrossidium
    • Phascopsis
    • Pterygoneurum
    • Sagenotortula
    • Saitobryum
    • Stegonia
    • Stonea R. H. Zander
    • Streptopogon
    • Syntrichia
    • Tortula
    • Willia
  • Subfamily Merceyoideae
    • Scopelophila

References
  1. William R. Buck & Bernard Goffinet (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (ed.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–123. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
  2. Wolfgang Frey, Michael Stech & Eberhard Fischer: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants (= Syllabus of Plant Families. 3). 13th edition. Borntraeger, 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8, pp. 176–183.


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