Hookeriaceae

Hookeriaceae
Hookeria lucens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Hookeriales
Family: Hookeriaceae
Schimp.

The Hookeriaceae is a family of mainly tropical mosses of the order Hookeriales.

One species of the family is present in the UK.[1]

Genera

There are only two genera in the family:[2]

The validity of including Crossomitrium in the Hookeriaceae is uncertain; it may warrant segregation in a family of its own.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Smith, A. J. E.; Smith, Ruth (2004). The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 698. ISBN 9780521546720.
  2. ^ Shaw, Arthur Jonathan; Goffinet, Bernard, eds. (2009). Bryophyte biology (2 ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-45577-3.
  3. ^ Pokorny, L.; Ho, B.-C.; Frahm, J.-P.; Quandt, D.; Shaw, A.J. (May 2012). "Phylogenetic analyses of morphological evolution in the gametophyte and sporophyte generations of the moss order Hookeriales (Bryopsida)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (2): 351–364. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.005.
  4. ^ Buck, William R.; Cox, Cymon J.; Shaw, A. Jonathan; Goffinet, Bernard (November 2004). "Ordinal relationships of pleurocarpous mosses, with special emphasis on the Hookeriales". Systematics and Biodiversity. 2 (2): 121–145. doi:10.1017/S1477200004001410.
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