Thuidiaceae Explained
Thuidiaceae is a family of mosses within the order Hypnales. It includes many genera but the classification may need to be refined. The core genera are Thuidium, Thuidiopsis, Pelekium, Aequatoriella, Abietinella, Rauiella, Haplocladium and Actinothuidium form a clade but others currently placed in the family may belong elsewhere.[1]
Species include Thuidiopsis sparsa and Abietinella abietina
Genera
As accepted by GBIF;[2]
- Abietinella (4)
- Actinothuidium (1)
- Aequatoriella (1)
- Anomodon (55)
- Boulaya (1)
- Bryochenea (2)
- Bryohaplocladium (10)
- Bryonoguchia (2)
- Claopodium (18)
- Cyrto-hypnum (39)
- Echinophyllum (1)
- Haplocladium (46)
- Helodium (7)
- Herpetineuron (3)
- Heterocladium (22)
- Hylocomiopsis (3)
- Indothuidium (1)
- Inouethuidium (1)
- Leptocladium (1)
- Leptopterigynandrum (13)
- Lorentzia (3)
- Miyabea (5)
- Orthothuidium (1)
- Pelekium (36)
- Ptychodium (15)
- Rauiella (15)
- Tamariscella (3)
- Tetracladium (1)
- Thuidiopsis (15)
- Thuidium (223)
Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.[2]
External links
Notes and References
- 10.1639/0007-2745-112.1.80. Phylogenetic relationships of the Thuidiaceae and the non-monophyly of the Thuidiaceae and the Leskeaceae based onrbcL, rps4 and therps4-trnS intergenic spacer. The Bryologist. 112. 80. 2009. García-Avila. Deneb. De Luna. Efraín. Newton. Angela E.
- Web site: Thuidiaceae . www.gbif.org . 6 August 2022 . en.
