| Funariaceae | |
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| Funaria hygrometrica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Funariidae |
| Order: | Funariales |
| Family: | Funariaceae Schwägr. |
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The Funariaceae are a family of mosses in the order Funariales.[1] About 303 species are included in the family, with 200 species in Funaria and another 80 classified in Physcomitrium.[2]
The genus Goniomitrium has been recently moved from the Pottiaceae to the Funariaceae.[3]
References
- ^ Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- ^ McIntosh, Terry T. (2002). "Funariaceae". Flora of North America. 27. New York: Oxford Univ Pr. pp. 180–199. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
- ^ Goffinet, Bernard; Norman J. Wickett; Olaf Werner; Rosa Maria Ros; A. Jonathan Shaw; Cymon J. Cox (2007). "Distribution and Phylogenetic Significance of the 71-kb Inversion in the Plastid Genome in Funariidae (Bryophyta)". Annals of Botany. 99 (4): 747–753. doi:10.1093/aob/mcm010. PMC 2802940. PMID 17337480.