Taxonomy
The order Bryales includes the following five family (biology), families: * Bryaceae * Leptostomataceae * Mniaceae * Phyllodrepaniaceae * Pulchrinodaceae The order used to be defined broadly to include the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.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). . A species of the Mniaceae genus ''Rhizomnium'', ''Rhizomnium dentatum'', was described from fossil gametophytes preserved in Baltic amber. The families Catoscopiaceae and Pseudoditrichaceae were previously placed in Bryales, but are now placed in Dicranidae as part of an early branching grade.References
Bryales, Moss orders {{bryophyte-stub