Andreaeaceae

Andreaeaceae is a family of mosses which includes two genera,[1] Andreaea, containing about 100 species, and the genus Acroschisma. The Andreaeaceae prefer rocky habitats ranging from tropical to arctic climates, on which they form tufted colonies, typically with reddish to blackish shoots. The capsules lack the peristome mechanism and dehisce longitudinally to release the spores, resulting in a paper-lantern appearance.

Andreaeaceae
Andreaea rupestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Andreaeopsida
J.H. Schaffn.
Order: Andreaeales
Limpr.
Family: Andreaeaceae
Dumort.
Genera

It was named by Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart in honour of his friend J.G.R. Andreae.[2]

The phylogenetic position of the Andreaeaceae among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.[3][4]
 
 

Takakiopsida

 
 

Sphagnopsida

 
 
 
 

Andreaeaceae

 
 

Andreaeobryopsida

 
 
 

Oedipodiopsida

 
 
 

Tetraphidopsida

 
 

Polytrichopsida

 
 

Bryopsida

 
 
 
 
 
 

References
  1. Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
  2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 10, p. 381, Linnean Society of London, 1811
  3. Goffinet, B.; W. R. Buck & A. J. Shaw (2008). "Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta". In Bernard Goffinet & A. Jonathan Shaw (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. ISBN 9780521872256.
  4. Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004). "Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 98: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.
  • Zander, Richard H. 2007. Bryophyte Flora of North America: Andreaeaceae


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