Andreaeobryum

Andreaeobryum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Andreaeobryopsida
Goffinet & W.R.Buck
Order: Andreaeobryales
B.M.Murray
Family: Andreaeobryaceae
Steere & B.M.Murray
Genus: Andreaeobryum
Steere & B.M.Murray
Species:
A. macrosporum
Binomial name
Andreaeobryum macrosporum
Andreaeobryum

Andreaeobryum is a genus of moss with a single species Andreaeobryum macrosporum, endemic to Alaska and western Canada. The genus is placed as a separate family, order and class among the mosses.

class Andreaeobryopsida
order Andreaeobryales
family Andreaeobraceae
Andreaeobryum
The phylogenetic position of Andreaeobryum among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.

References

  1. 1 2 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. 98. Missouri Botanical Garden Press: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  2. ↑ Murray, B. M. (1988). "Systematics of the Andreaeopsida (Bryophyta): Two orders with links to Takakia". Nova Hedwigia. 90: 289–336.
  3. 1 2 Steere, W. C.; B. M. Murray (1976). "Andreaeobryum macrosporum, a new genus and species of Musci from northern Alaska and Canada". Phytologia. 33: 407–410. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.16794.
  4. ↑ Eckel, Patricia M. (2007). "Andreaeobryaceae". Flora of North America. Vol. 27. pp. 108–110.
  5. ↑ Buck, William R.; Bernard Goffinet (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In A. Jonathan Shaw; Bernard Goffinet (eds.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–123. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
  6. ↑ 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.

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