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| Callicostella belangeriana under 100x magnification. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Bryidae |
| Order: | Hookeriales |
| Family: | Pilotrichaceae Kindb. |
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Pilotrichaceae is a family of pleurocarpous mosses in Hookeriales. It includes 20 genera. [1] It is primarily tropical and epiphytic or epiphyllous. [2]
Members of the family are characterized by a double costa, sometimes with hyalodermis, and no alar differentiation. Leaves are usually complanate and may by asymmetrical along the dorsal/ventral axis. Leaf margins are dentate to serrate, bordered or not, and often reduced. Laminal cells are isodiametric to linear and smooth to papillose. The sporophyte seta is long, but many other characters vary genus to genus. [3]
As reported by Tropicos and World Flora Online:
Dicranum is a genus of mosses, also called wind-blown mosses or fork mosses. These mosses form in densely packed clumps. Stems may fork, but do not branch. In general, upright stems will be single but packed together. Dicranum is distributed globally. In North America these are commonly found in Jack pine or Red pine stands.
Archidium is a genus of mosses; it is the only genus in the family Archidiaceae and order Archidiales. Historically, they were considered the only genus in the subclass Archidiidae Engl.
Lepidopilum is a genus of moss in family Pilotrichaceae. There are over 200 species in the genus.
Pinnatella is a genus of moss in family Neckeraceae.
Thamnobryum is a genus of moss in the family Neckeraceae. There are about 50 species. The genus is distributed throughout the world.
Dicranaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in class Bryopsida. Species within this family are dioicous. Genera in this family include Dicranum, Dicranoloma, and Mitrobryum.
Leucobryaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the order Dicranales.
Grimmia is a genus of mosses (Bryophyta), originally named by Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart in honour of Johann Friedrich Carl Grimm, a physician and botanist from Gotha, Germany.
Anomodon is a genus of mosses in the family Thuidiaceae.
Sematophyllaceae is a family of mosses, known commonly as signal mosses. They grow on rocks in wet or humid places. and are found nearly worldwide, especially in tropical and temperate regions. There are about 150 species, which form yellow to yellow-green mats with reddish stems.
The Hookeriaceae are a family of mainly tropical mosses of the order Hookeriales.
Campylopus is a genus of 180 species of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the family Leucobryaceae. The name comes from the Greek campylos, meaning curved, and pous, meaning foot, referring to the setae which curve downwards.
Leucobryum is a genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the family Leucobryaceae. The name comes from the Greek leukos, meaning white, and bryon, meaning moss.
Timmiellaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae). It contains two genera, Luisierella and Timmiella, that were formerly place in family Pottiaceae.
Octoblepharum is a genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the monotypic family Octoblepharaceae . The genus Octoblepharum was previously placed in family Calymperaceae.
Syntrichia is a large, cosmopolitan genus of mosses in the family Pottiaceae. The genus name is of Greek origin for "with" and "hair", referring to the "twisted peristome united by a basal membrane".
Neckera is a large genus of mosses belonging to the family Neckeraceae. The genus was first described by Johann Hedwig. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Philonotis is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Bartramiaceae.
Rhynchostegium is a genus of pleurocarpous mosses belonging to the family Brachytheciaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution across different climatological regions except the polar regions, mostly in tropic to north temperate regions. The genus contains both aquatic and terrestrial species. The genus was named for their rostrate opercula. The type species of this genus is Rhynchostegium confertum (Dicks.) Schimp.
Vesicularia is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Hypnaceae.
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