Rhizogoniales Explained

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

Description

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

Taxonomy

Two families are included in the order. These are the Rhizogoniaceae and Calomniaceae.^[3]

Family Calomniaceae

• Calomnion Hook. f. & Wilson
• Cryptopodium Brid.
• Pyrrhobryum Mitt.

Family Rhizogoniaceae

• Goniobryum Lindb.
• Rhizogonium Brid.

Notes and References

1. Bell . Neil E. . Quandt . Dietmar . O'Brien . Terry J. . Newton . Angela E. . Taxonomy and Phylogeny in the Earliest Diverging Pleurocarps: Square Holes and Bifurcating Pegs . The Bryologist . 2007 . 110 . 3 . 533–560 . 10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[533:TAPITE]2.0.CO;2 . 20110887 . 86255061 .
2. Book: Newton . Angela E. . Tangney . Raymond S. . Pleurocarpous Mosses: Systematics and Evolution . 2007 . CRC Press . 978-1-4200-0559-2 . 299 .
3. Book: 10.1017/CBO9781139171304.004 . Morphology and classification of mosses . Bryophyte Biology . 2000 . Buck . William R. . Goffinet . Bernard . 71–123 . 978-0-521-66794-4 . A. Jonathan . Shaw . Bernard . Goffinet . https://books.google.com/books?id=fuOKCOlRngkC&pg=PA71 .