Hypnaceae
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| Hypnum cupressiforme | |
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Hypnaceae is a large family of moss with broad worldwide occurrence[1] in the class Bryopsida, subclass Bryidae and order Hypnales. Genera include Hypnum and Ptilium.
Ecology
Some of the family species occur on the floor of Canadian boreal forests; an example of this occurrence is within the Black Spruce/Feathermoss climax forest, often having moderately dense canopy and featuring a forest floor of feathermosses including, Hylocomium splendens, Pleurozium schreberi and Ptilium crista-castrensis.[2]
Classification
- Acritodon
- Andoa
- Austrohondaella
- Bardunovia
- Breidleria
- Bryocrumia
- Buckiella
- Callicladium
- Calliergonella
- Campylophyllopsis
- Campylophyllum
- Caribaeohypnum
- Chryso-hypnum
- Crepidophyllum
- Ctenidiadelphus
- Cyathothecium
- Dacryophyllum
- Ectropotheciella
- Ectropotheciopsis
- Ectropothecium
- Elharveya
- Elmeriobryum
- Entodontella
- Eurohypnum
- Foreauella
- Gammiella
- Giraldiella
- Gollania
- Hageniella
- Herzogiella
- Homomallium
- Hondaella
- Horridohypnum
- Hyocomium
- Hypnum
- Irelandia
- Isopterygiopsis
- Leiodontium
- Leptoischyrodon
- Macrothamniella
- Mahua
- Microctenidium
- Mittenothamnium
- Nanothecium
- Orthothecium
- Phyllodon
- Plagiotheciopsis
- Platydictya
- Platygyriella
- Podperaea
- Pseudohypnella
- Pseudotaxiphyllum
- Ptilium
- Pylaisia
- Rhacopilopsis
- Rhizohypnella
- Sclerohypnum
- Stenotheciopsis
- Stereodon
- Stereodontopsis
- Syringothecium
- Taxiphyllopsis
- Taxiphyllum
- Vesicularia
- Wijkiella
See also
References
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
- ITIS Report. 1999. Family: Hypnaceae
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