Timmia

Timmia is a genus of moss. It is the only genus in the family Timmiaceae and order Timmiales.[2] The genus is named in honor of the 18th-century German botanist Joachim Christian Timm.[3]

Timmia
Timmia megapolitana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Timmiidae
Ochyra
Order: Timmiales
Ochyra
Family: Timmiaceae
Schimp.
Genus: Timmia
Hedw., 1801[1]
Species
  • Timmia austriaca
  • Timmia megapolitana
  • Timmia norvegica
  • Timmia sibirica

The genus Timmia includes only four species:[3]

genus Timmia
Timmia austriaca
Timmia megapolitana
Timmia norvegica
Timmia sibirica
 
 

Oedipodiopsida

 
 
 
 

Tetraphidopsida

 
 

Polytrichopsida

 
Bryopsida
 

Buxbaumiidae

 
 
 

Diphysciidae

 
 
 

Timmia

 
 

Funariidae

 
 

Dicranidae

 
 

Bryidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The species and phylogenetic position of Timmia.[4][5]

References
  1. Hedwig, Johann (1801). Species Muscorum frondosorum descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii. Leipzig. p. 176.
  2. 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.
  3. Brassard, Guy R. (2007). "Timmiaceae". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America. 27. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 165–169. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
  4. 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 978-0-521-87225-6.
  5. 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.


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