Aulacomniaceae is a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
mosses
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta ('' sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and ho ...
.
Description
Bell et al. (2007) describes members of the family:
*"Morphological traits shared by these taxa include sulcate capsules, deciduous apical leaves, undulate, oblong-ovate and asymmetrical leaves with coarsely-toothed margins, and smooth leaf cells."
[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 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20110887Copy]
Classification
The placement of the family has been subject to much revision. The family was first described by
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin, Lichtenberg) was an Alsace, Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller ...
in his 1860 publication ''Synopsis Muscorum Europaeorum''.
Bell et al. (2007) elevated the family to the order Aulacomniales.
[ However, the Goffinet et al. (2009) classification places the family within the ]Rhizogoniales
Rhizogoniales is an order (biology), order of mosses in the Bryopsida.
Description
Most of the taxa within the order are basal-branching pleurocarpous, pleurocarps.
Taxonomy
Two families are included in the order. These are the Rhizogoniaceae a ...
.[
The genera represented by the order are:
* '' Aulacomnium''
* '' Mesochaete''
* '' Hymenodontopsis''
]
References
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Moss families
Rhizogoniales