Biology:Andreaeaceae

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Short description: Family of mosses

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

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.

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

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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

External links

  • Zander, Richard H. 2007. Bryophyte Flora of North America: Andreaeaceae

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