Rhizogoniales

Rhizogoniales

Rhizogoniales

Order of mosses

Rhizogoniales is an order of mosses in the Bryopsida.[1]

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Description

Most of the taxa within the order are basal-branching pleurocarps.[2]

Taxonomy

Three families are included in the order. These are the Rhizogoniaceae, Orthodontiaceae, and Aulacomniaceae.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Bell, Neil E.; Quandt, Dietmar; O'Brien, Terry J.; Newton, Angela E. (2007). "Taxonomy and Phylogeny in the Earliest Diverging Pleurocarps: Square Holes and Bifurcating Pegs". The Bryologist. 110 (3): 533–560. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[533:TAPITE]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 20110887. S2CID 86255061.
  2. [2]
    Newton, Angela E.; Tangney, Raymond S. (2007). Pleurocarpous Mosses: Systematics and Evolution. CRC Press. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-4200-0559-2.
  3. [3]
    Buck, William R.; Goffinet, Bernard (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In Shaw, A. Jonathan; Goffinet, Bernard (eds.). Bryophyte Biology. pp. 71–123. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139171304.004. ISBN 978-0-521-66794-4.


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