Hypopterygiaceae

The Hypopterygiaceae are a family of mainly tropical mosses of the order Hypopterygiales[1], a sister-group to the Hookeriales and Hypnales.

Hypopterygiaceae
Hypopterygium didictyon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Superorder: Hypnanae
Order: Hypopterygiales
Goffinet
Family: Hypopterygiaceae
Mitt.

It contains eight genera.[2][3]

  • Arbusculohypopterygium Stech, T. Pfeiffer & W. Frey
  • Canalohypopterygium W. Frey & Schaepe
  • Catharomnion Hook.f. & Wilson
  • Cyathophorum P. Beauv.
  • Dendrocyathophorum Dixon
  • Dendrohypopterygium Kruijer
  • Hypopterygium Brid.
  • Lopidium Hook.f. & Wilson

References
  1. Liu, Yang; Johnson, Matthew G.; Cox, Cymon J.; Medina, Rafael; Devos, Nicolas; Vanderpoorten, Alain; Hedenäs, Lars; Bell, Neil E.; Shevock, James R.; Aguero, Blanka; Quandt, Dietmar; Wickett, Norman J.; Shaw, A. Jonathan; Goffinet, Bernard (2019). "Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes". Nature Communications. 10 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09454-w. ISSN 2041-1723.
  2. Lepp, Heino (2012). "Bryogeography of the Hypopterygiaceae". Australian Bryophytes. Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. Goffinet, B.; Buck, W.R. "Classification of extant moss genera". Classification of the Bryophyta. Retrieved 27 July 2020.


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