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Funariaceae

The Funariaceae are a family of mosses in the order Funariales. As of January 2025, 233 species are included in the family.

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Funariaceae
Funaria hygrometrica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Funariidae
Order: Funariales
Family: Funariaceae
Schwägr.
Genera

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The Funariaceae are a family of mosses in the order Funariales.12 As of January 2025, 233 species are included in the family.

The genus Goniomitrium has been recently moved from the Pottiaceae to the Funariaceae.3

Genera

World Flora Online accepts the following genera:4

  • Afoninia Ignatova, Goffinet & Fedosov (1 species)
  • Bryobeckettia Fife (1 species)
  • Cygnicollum Fife & Magill (1 species)
  • Entosthodon Schwägr. (96 species)
  • Funaria Hedw. (53 species)
  • Funariella Sérgio (1 species)
  • Funariophyscomitrella F.Wettst. (5 species)
  • Goniomitrium Hook. & Wilson (3 species)
  • Loiseaubryum Bizot (1 species)
  • Nanomitriella E.B.Bartram (1 species)
  • Physcomitrellopsis Broth. & Wager ex Dixon (1 species)
  • Physcomitriopsis D.Subram. (1 species)
  • Physcomitrium (Brid.) Brid. (66 species)
  • Pyramidula Brid. (1 species)
  • Steppomitra Vondr. & Hadač (1 species)
References

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. McIntosh, Terry T. (2002). "Funariaceae". Flora of North America. Vol. 27. New York: Oxford Univ Pr. pp. 180–199. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
  3. Goffinet, Bernard; Norman J. Wickett; Olaf Werner; Rosa Maria Ros; A. Jonathan Shaw; Cymon J. Cox (2007). "Distribution and Phylogenetic Significance of the 71-kb Inversion in the Plastid Genome in Funariidae (Bryophyta)". Annals of Botany. 99 (4): 747–753. doi:10.1093/aob/mcm010. PMC 2802940. PMID 17337480.
  4. "Funariaceae Schwägr". World Flora Online. December 2025. Retrieved 6 January 2025.