HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Isobryales are an
order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood ...
of
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. Its taxonomic status is not clear. The
Integrated Taxonomic Information System The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagenc ...
and
National Center for Biotechnology Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is lo ...
databases consider it as a synonym of
Bryidae Bryidae is an important subclass of Bryopsida. It is common throughout the whole world. Members have a double peristome with alternating tooth segments. Classification The classification of the Bryidae.Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. ...
and
Hypnales Hypnales is the botanical name of an order of Bryophyta or leafy mosses. This group is sometimes called feather mosses, referring to their freely branched stems. The order includes more than 40 families and more than 4,000 species, making them ...
, respectively. The
Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around th ...
considers it valid in its own right.


Genera

As accepted by GBIF; * Cyrtopodaceae (8) *
Fontinalaceae Fontinalaceae is a family of mosses belonging to the order Hypnales. Genera: * '' Brachelyma'' Schimp. ex Cardot (1) * '' Cryphaeadelphus'' (Müller Hal.) J.Cardot, 1904 * '' Dichelyma'' Myrin (10) * ''Fontinalis ''Fontinalis'' is a genus of ...
(94) * Glyphomitriaceae (1) * Hydropogonaceae (4) * Lepyrodontaceae(13) * Prionodontaceae (21) * Ptychomniaceae (44) * Regmatodontaceae (29) * Rhacocarpaceae (1) * Rutenbergiaceae (11) * Trachypodaceae (80) * Wardiaceae (2) Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.


Description

The order includes plants that generally grow from a creeping primary stem with reduced leaves, and plants that have spreading to ascending secondary stems which may be pinnately branched. Paraphyllia (tiny branched or stipuliform organs between the leaves) and pseudoparaphyllia are sometimes present on the stems. The leaves may have single or double and sometimes short
costae In vertebrate anatomy, ribs () are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton. In most tetrapods, ribs surround the thoracic cavity, enabling the lungs to expand and thus facilitate breathing by expanding the thor ...
(ribs). The cells may be short or elongate and smooth or papillose, with those at basal angles sometimes differentiated. The
sporophyte A sporophyte () is one of the two alternation of generations, alternating multicellular organism, multicellular phases in the biological life cycle, life cycles of plants and algae. It is a diploid multicellular organism which produces asexual Spo ...
s are lateral, usually with elongate
setae In biology, setae (; seta ; ) are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms. Animal setae Protostomes Depending partly on their form and function, protostome setae may be called macrotrichia, chaetae ...
and capsules. The double peristome, sometimes reduced, consists of 16 teeth which are papillose on the outer surface, or less often cross-striate at the base, and an endostome with narrow segments and a low basal membrane or none at all. The calyptrae (the protective cap or hood covering the spore case) are cucullate (hooded) and naked, or mitrate and hairy.


References

Moss orders Bryidae {{Bryidae-stub