''Platyhypnum'' is a genus 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 in the family
Amblystegiaceae
Amblystegiaceae is a family of mosses. It includes 20 to 30 genera with a total of up to 150 species.
*'' Jankuceraea'' Ignatov & Ignatova2022
*'' Kandaea'' Jan Kučera & Hedenäs2020
*'' Koponenia'' Ochyra1985
*'' Larrainia'' W.R. Buck2015
*'' ...
.
Previously accepted as ''Ochyraea'', that genus was named in honour of
Ryszard Ochyra
Ryszard Ochyra (born 1949) is a Polish bryologist. He has focused on moss systematics of the Southern Hemisphere, specifically in the families Amblystegiaceae, Dicranaceae, Grimmiaceae, and Seligeriaceae. Throughout his career, he has described ...
(born 1949), a Polish
bryologist and was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Jiří Váňa in J. Bryol. vol.14 on page 261 in 1986. They have been found in Europe and across Russia.
Species
As accepted by
Catalog of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomi ...
:
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Platyhypnum alpestre''
(Hedw.) Ochyra
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Platyhypnum alpinum''
(Lindb.) Loeske
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Platyhypnum cochleariifolium''
(Venturi) Ochyra
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Platyhypnum duriusculum''
(De Not.) Ochyra
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Platyhypnum molle''
(Hedw.) Loeske
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Platyhypnum norvegicum''
(Schimp.) Ochyra
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Platyhypnum smithii''
(Sw.) Ochyra
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Platyhypnum tatrense''
(Váňa) Hedenäs & Ignatov
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Platyhypnum tsurugizanicum''
(Cardot) Ochyra
References
Moss genera
Amblystegiaceae
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