Splachnaceae

Splachnaceae
Splachnum sphaericum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Bryidae
Order: Splachnales
Family: Splachnaceae
Grev. & Arn.
Genera
  • Aplodon
  • Moseniella
  • Splachnum
  • Tayloria
  • Tetraplodon
  • Voitia

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

  1. Bernard Goffinet (2012). "Splachnaceae". In Patrick M. McCarthy. Australian Mosses Online (PDF). Australian Biological Resources Study.
  2. 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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