Hypnales

Hypnales is the botanical name of an order of Bryophyta or leafy mosses. This group is sometimes called feather mosses, referring to their freely branched stems.[1] The order includes more than 40 families and more than 4,000 species, making them the largest order of mosses.[2][3]

Hypnales
Thuidium tamariscinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Superorder: Hypnanae
Order: Hypnales
W.R. Buck & Vitt, 1986
Families

See Classification

Description
Hypnum lindbergii, cross section of the stem with the central vascular bundle
River feather-moss, Brachythecium rivulare, prosenchymatic leaf blade cells
Detail of a sporangium with a beak-shaped operculum

Hypnales are mosses with pinnately or irregularly branched, reclining stems, with varying appearances. The stem contains only a reduced central vascular bundle, which is seen as a recent derived trait in mosses. The stems are covered with paraphyllia or pseudoparaphyllia, reduced filamentous or scaly leaves.

The ordinary stem leaves are ovate to lanceolate, often with leaf wing cells. The midvein is often limited to the lower half of the leaf blade, or has completely disappeared. The cells of the leaf blade are prosenchymatic, many times longer than wide, with pointed ends interlocking.

The sporophyte consists of a regularly shaped sporangium on a long stalk or seta. The spores are distributed via a ring-shaped opening with two rows of teeth, the peristome, which before ripeness is closed by a beak-shaped operculum. The enlarged venter or calyptra is cap-shaped and smooth.[4][5]

Habitat, distribution and paleobiology

Hypnales are terrestrial, epiphytic or lithophytic plants that occur in the most diverse biotopes and are distributed worldwide. Many species of this family are not picky concerning their substrate and habitat. The earliest fossils of representatives of the Hypnales are known only from the Tertiary,[4] indicating that this group is young compared to other groups of mosses.

Classification

Recent genetic research suggests that the Fabroniaceae are the sistergroup of all other Hypnales. Next to branch-off are the Catagoniaceae. According to this analysis, some of the remaining taxa may be polyphyletic (Lembophyllaceae, Neckeraceae, Brachytheciaceae), others paraphyletic (Lepyrodontaceae enclose Stereophyllaceae, part of the Brachytheciaceae enclose Symphyodontaceae and two separate parts of the Lembophyllaceae, part of the Neckeraceae enclose the remaining Brachytheciaceae, another part of the Lembophyllaceae enclose Rigodiaceae and Pterigynandraceae and a second part of the Neckeraceae). The rest of the families, the third part of the Neckeraceae and the fourth part of the Lembophyllaceae could be monophyletic.[6]

Originally, the Leucodontales were treated as a separate order, which were defined by a reduced peristome. However, molecular analyses rejected separation of the Leucodontales and the Hypnales. The former was absorbed into the latter.[7][8]

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References
  1. Sci-Tech Encyclopedia (2005). "Hypnales". McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Archived from the original on 2008-04-16. Retrieved 1 December 2012 – via Answers.com.
  2. Buck, W. & Shaw, A. (2008). "Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta". In B. Goffinet (Author) & A. Shaw (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511754807.003. ISBN 978-0-521-87225-6.
  3. Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004). "Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 98: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.
  4. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). "GBIF Checklist Bank: Hypnales". Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  5. Christopher Taylor (April 12, 2011). "Hypnales". Variety of Life. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  6. Merget, Benjamin; Wolf, Matthias (2010). "A molecular phylogeny of Hypnales (Bryophyta) inferred from ITS2 sequence-structure data". BMC Research Notes. 3: 320. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-3-320. PMC 2998521.
  7. TSUBOTA, H., ARIKAWA, T., AKIYAMA, H., DE LUNA, E., GONZALES, D., HIGUCHI, M. & DEGUCHI, H. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of hypnobryalean mosses as inferred from a large-scale dataset of chloroplast rbcL, with special reference to the Hypnaceae and possibly related families. Hikobia 13, 645–665.
  8. BUCK, W.R., GOFFINET, B. & SHAW, A.J. 2000. Testing morphological concepts of orders of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta) using phylogenetic reconstructions based on trnL-trnF and rps4 sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16, 180–198.
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