Hookeriales is an
order
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
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...
of
Bryophyta or leafy
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...
es. Named for
William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botany, botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew Gardens, Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botan ...
, it is composed of mainly subtropical and tropical species of mosses with generally complanate and asymmetrical leaves.
Families
Hookeriales comprises the following families:
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Daltoniaceae
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Hookeriaceae
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Hypopterygiaceae
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Leucomiaceae
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Pilotrichaceae
*
Saulomataceae
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Schimperobryaceae
References
Hypnanae
Moss orders
Taxa named by James Edward Smith
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