Splachnaceae
| Splachnaceae | |
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| Splachnum sphaericum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Bryidae |
| Order: | Splachnales |
| Family: | Splachnaceae Grev. & Arn. |
| Genera | |
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Splachnaceae is a family of mosses, containing around 70 species in 6 genera.[1] Around half of those species are entomophilous, using insects to disperse their spores, a characteristic found in no other seedless land plants.[2]
References
- ↑ Bernard Goffinet (2012). "Splachnaceae". In Patrick M. McCarthy. Australian Mosses Online (PDF). Australian Biological Resources Study.
- ↑ Bernard Goffinet, A. Jonathan Shaw & Cymon J. Cox (2004). "Phylogenetic inferences in the dung-moss family Splachnaceae from analyses of cpDNA sequence data and implications for the evolution of entomophily". American Journal of Botany 91 (5): 748–759. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.5.748.
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