Bryales Explained

Bryales is an order of mosses.

Taxonomy

The order Bryales includes the following five families:^{[1] [2]}

The order used to be defined broadly to include the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.^[3] A species of the Mniaceae genus Rhizomnium, Rhizomnium dentatum, was described from fossil gametophytes preserved in Baltic amber.^[4]

The families Catoscopiaceae and Pseudoditrichaceae were previously placed in Bryales, but are now placed in Dicranidae as part of an early branching grade.^{[2] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Goffinet . B. . W. R. . Buck . A. J. . Shaw . 2008 . Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta . 55–138 . Goffinet . B. . J. . Shaw . Bryophyte Biology . 2nd . New York . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-87225-6 . https://books.google.com/books?id=te0fAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT108.
2. Web site: Goffinet . B. . W.R. . Buck . Classification of extant moss genera . Classification of the Bryophyta . 4 March 2014 . 8 April 2020.
3. Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). .
4. Heinrichs . J . Hedenäs . L . Schäfer-Verwimp . A . Feldberg . K . Schmidt . AR . 2014 . An in situ preserved moss community in Eocene Baltic amber . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . 210 . 113–118 . 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.08.005.
5. Fedosov. Vladimir E.. Fedorova. Alina V.. Fedosov. Alexander E.. Ignatov. Michael S.. Phylogenetic inference and peristome evolution in haplolepideous mosses, focusing on Pseudoditrichaceae and Ditrichaceaes. l.. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181. 2. 2016. 139–155. 0024-4074. 10.1111/boj.12408. free.