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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Dicranidae |
| Order: | Pottiales |
| Family: | Pottiaceae Schimp. |
The Pottiaceae are a family of mosses. They form the most numerous moss family known, containing nearly 1500 species or more than 10% of the 10,000 to 15,000 moss species known.
Genera
The family has four subfamilies and 83 genera.
- Subfamily Trichostomoideae
- Bryoceuthospora
- Calymperastrum
- Calyptopogon
- Chionoloma
- Eucladium
- Leptobarbula
- Neophoenix
- Pachyneuropsis
- Pleurochaete
- Pottiopsis
- Pseudosymblepharis
- Quaesticula
- Streptocalypta
- Tetracoscinodon
- Tetrapterum
- Tortella Lindb.
- Trachycarpidium
- Trichostomum
- Oxystegus
- Tuerckheima Broth.
- Uleobryum
- Weissia
- Weissiodicranum
- Subfamily Barbuloideae
- Anoectangium
- Barbula
- Bellibarbula
- Bryoerythrophyllum
- Cinclidotus
- Dialytrichia
- Didymodon (e.g. Didymodon tomaculosus)
- Erythrophyllopsis
- Ganguleea
- Gertrudiella
- Gymnostomum
- Gymnostomiella
- Gyroweisia
- Hymenostyliella
- Hymenostylium
- Hyophila
- Hyophiladelphus
- Koponobryum
- Leptodontiella
- Leptodontium
- Luisierella
- Mironia
- Molendoa
- Plaubelia
- Pseudocrossidium
- Reimersia
- Rhexophyllum
- Sarconeurum (e.g. Sarconeurum glaciale)
- Splachnobryum
- Streptotrichum
- Teniolophora
- Trachyodontium
- Triquetrella
- Weisiopsis
- Subfamily Pottioideae
- Subfamily Merceyoideae
The GBIF also lists Morinia Cardot, Saitoa, Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974, and Spruceella Müll.Hal., 1900 but with no subfamily details.
Subfamily Timmielloideae (and its two genera of Timmiella and Luisierella) have been transferred to a new family Timmiellaceae, due to molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2014.
References
- William R. Buck & Bernard Goffinet (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (ed.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–123. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- Wolfgang Frey, Michael Stech & Eberhard Fischer: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants (= Syllabus of Plant Families. 3). 13th edition. Borntraeger, 2009, ISBN 978-3-443-01063-8, pp. 176–183.
- "Pottiaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- "Saitoa". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- "Sebillea M.Bizot, 1974". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- "Spruceella". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- Inoue, Yuya; Tsubota, Hiromi (3 October 2014). "On the systematic position of the genus Timmiella (Dicranidae, Bryopsida) and its allied genera, with the description of a new family Timmiellaceae". Phytotaxa. 181 (3).
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