Rhizogoniales

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

Rhizogoniales
Pyrrhobryum parramattense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Superorder: Bryanae
Order: Rhizogoniales
(M. Fleisch.) Goffinet & W.R. Buck
Families
Synonyms
  • Aulacomniales (Schimp.) N.E.Bell, A.E.Newton, D.Quandt
  • Orthodontiales (Broth.) N.E.Bell, A.E.Newton, D.Quandt

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. Bell, N., Quandt, D., O'Brien, T., & Newton, A. (2007). Taxonomy and Phylogeny in the Earliest Diverging Pleurocarps: Square Holes and Bifurcating Pegs. The Bryologist, 110(3), 533-560. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20110887
  2. Newton, Angela E.; Tangney, Raymond S. (2007). Pleurocarpous Mosses: Systematics and Evolution. CRC Press. p. 299. ISBN 9781420005592.
  3. Goffinet, Bernard; Shaw, A. Jonathon (2009). "Morphology and classification of the Bryophyta". Bryophyte Biology.
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