Pottiaceae

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

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]

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

^ 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.
^ 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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[Buck_&_Goffinet-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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