Splachnaceae
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Splachnum sphaericum | |
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Family: | Splachnaceae |
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Splachnaceae is a family of mosses, containing around 70 species in 6 genera.[1] Around half of those species are entomophilous, using insects to disperse their spores, a characteristic found in no other seedless land plants.[2]
References
- ^ Bernard Goffinet (2012). "Splachnaceae". In Patrick M. McCarthy (ed.). Australian Mosses Online (PDF). Australian Biological Resources Study.
- ^ Bernard Goffinet, A. Jonathan Shaw & Cymon J. Cox (2004). "Phylogenetic inferences in the dung-moss family Splachnaceae from analyses of cpDNA sequence data and implications for the evolution of entomophily". American Journal of Botany. 91 (5): 748–759. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.5.748. PMID 21653429.