Timmia

Timmia
Timmia megapolitana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Subclass:	Timmiidae Ochyra
Order:	Timmiales Ochyra
Family:	Timmiaceae Schimp.
Genus:	Timmia Hedw., 1801[1]
Species
Timmia austriaca Timmia megapolitana Timmia norvegica Timmia sibirica

Timmia is a genus of moss. It is the only genus in the family Timmiaceae and order Timmiales.^[2] The genus is named in honor of the 18th-century German botanist Joachim Christian Timm.^[3]

The genus Timmia includes only four species:^[3]

genus Timmia Timmia austriaca Timmia megapolitana Timmia norvegica Timmia sibirica	Oedipodiopsida Tetraphidopsida Polytrichopsida Bryopsida Buxbaumiidae Diphysciidae Timmia Funariidae Dicranidae Bryidae
The species and phylogenetic position of Timmia.[4][5]

References

1. Hedwig, Johann (1801). Species Muscorum frondosorum descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii. Leipzig. p. 176.
2. 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.
3. Brassard, Guy R. (2007). "Timmiaceae". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (eds.). Flora of North America 27. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 165–169. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
4. Goffinet, B.; W. R. Buck; A. J. Shaw (2008). "Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta". In Bernard Goffinet & A. Jonathan Shaw (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. ISBN 978-0-521-87225-6.
5. Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004). "Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes (Missouri Botanical Garden Press) 98: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.

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