Wilhelm Philippe Schimper was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. He was the father of botanist Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), and a cousin to naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867) and botanist Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878).
Oedipodium is the only genus of moss in the family Oedipodiaceae. It contains the single species Oedipodium griffithianum, the gouty-moss or Griffith's oedipodium moss. This species is distributed in cooler climates of Eurasia, as well as from Alaska, Washington state, British Columbia, Yukon, Greenland, Newfoundland, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.
Fissidentaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the order Dicranales, with a single genus, Fissidens. It was formerly placed in the now-obsolete order Fissidentales.
Pohlia is a genus of mosses in the family Mniaceae, found on all continents including Antarctica. Some of its species are native to multiple continents. The center of diversity is the Northern Hemisphere.
Weissia is a genus of mosses, belonging to the family Pottiaceae.
Amblystegium is a genus of moss belonging to the family Amblystegiaceae.
Eurhynchium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Brachytheciaceae.
Hylocomium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Hylocomiaceae.
Gyroweisia tenuis, the Slender Stubble-moss, is a species of moss belonging to the family Pottiaceae.
Anomobryum is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Bryaceae.
Homalothecium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Brachytheciaceae.
Campylophyllum is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Hypnaceae.
Drepanocladus is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Amblystegiaceae.
Gertrudiella is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Pottiaceae.
Helodium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Thuidiaceae.
Thuidiopsis is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Thuidiaceae.
Tetraplodon is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Splachnaceae.
Acroporium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Sematophyllaceae.
Chorisodontium is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Dicranaceae.
Arctoa is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Dicranaceae.
