Pottiaceae Explained

The Pottiaceae are a family of mosses. They form the most numerous moss family known, containing nearly 1500 species or more than 10% of the 10,000 to 15,000 moss species known.^[1]

Genera

The family has four subfamilies and 83 genera.^[2]

• Subfamily Trichostomoideae
  • Bryoceuthospora
  • Calymperastrum
  • Calyptopogon
  • Chionoloma
  • Eucladium
  • Leptobarbula
  • Neophoenix
  • Pachyneuropsis
  • Pleurochaete
  • Pottiopsis
  • Pseudosymblepharis
  • Quaesticula
  • Streptocalypta
  • Tetracoscinodon
  • Tetrapterum
  • Tortella Lindb.
  • Trachycarpidium
  • Trichostomum
  • Oxystegus
  • Tuerckheima Broth.
  • Uleobryum
  • Weissia
  • Weissiodicranum
• Subfamily Barbuloideae
  • Anoectangium
  • Barbula
  • Bellibarbula
  • Bryoerythrophyllum
  • Cinclidotus
  • Dialytrichia
  • Didymodon (e.g. Didymodon tomaculosus)
  • Erythrophyllopsis
  • Ganguleea
  • Gertrudiella
  • Gymnostomum
  • Gymnostomiella
  • Gyroweisia
  • Hymenostyliella
  • Hymenostylium
  • Hyophila
  • Hyophiladelphus
  • Koponobryum
  • Leptodontiella
  • Leptodontium
  • Luisierella
  • Mironia
  • Molendoa
  • Plaubelia
  • Pseudocrossidium
  • Reimersia
  • Rhexophyllum
  • Sarconeurum (e.g. Sarconeurum glaciale)
  • Splachnobryum
  • Streptotrichum
  • Teniolophora
  • Trachyodontium
  • Triquetrella
  • Weisiopsis
• Subfamily Pottioideae
  • Acaulon
  • Aloina
  • Aloinella Cardot
  • Chenia
  • Crossidium
  • Crumia
  • Dolotortula
  • Globulinella
  • Hennediella
  • Hilpertia
  • Ludorugbya
  • Microbryum
  • Microcrossidium
  • Phascopsis
  • Pterygoneurum
  • Sagenotortula
  • Saitobryum
  • Stegonia
  • Stonea R. H. Zander
  • Streptopogon
  • Syntrichia
  • Tortula
  • Willia
• Subfamily Merceyoideae
  • Scopelophila

The GBIF also lists Morinia,^[3] Saitoa,^[4] Sebillea,^[5] and Spruceella ^[6] but with no subfamily details.

Subfamily Timmielloideae (and its two genera of Timmiella and Luisierella) have been transferred to a new family Timmiellaceae, due to molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2014.^[7]

External links

• Pottiaceae

Notes and References

1. Book: William R. Buck & Bernard Goffinet . 2000 . Morphology and classification of mosses . 71–123 . A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet . Bryophyte Biology . Cambridge . . 0-521-66097-1.
2. Wolfgang Frey, Michael Stech & Eberhard Fischer: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants (= Syllabus of Plant Families. 3). 13th edition. Borntraeger, 2009,, pp. 176–183.
3. Web site: Pottiaceae . www.gbif.org . 11 August 2022 . en.
4. Web site: Saitoa . www.gbif.org . 10 October 2022 . en.
5. Web site: Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974 . www.gbif.org . 23 October 2022 . en.
6. Web site: Spruceella . www.gbif.org . 2 November 2022 . en.
7. Inoue . Yuya . Tsubota . Hiromi . On the systematic position of the genus Timmiella (Dicranidae, Bryopsida) and its allied genera, with the description of a new family Timmiellaceae . Phytotaxa . 3 October 2014 . 181 . 3.