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Sphagnopsida

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Subclass of mosses

Sphagnopsida
Temporal range: Permian to present
A clump of Sphagnum, peat moss
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Subdivision: Sphagnophytina
Class: Sphagnopsida
Ochyra
Orders

Sphagnopsida is a class of mosses that includes a single subclass Sphagnidae, with two orders. It is estimated it originated about 465 million years ago, along with Takakia.[1] The order Sphagnales contains four living genera: Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, and Flatbergium, which counts four species in total, and Sphagnum which contains the rest of the species. The extinct Protosphagnales contains a single fossil species.

class Sphagnopsida
order Protosphagnales +
order Sphagnales
family Ambuchananiaceae
family Flatbergiaceae
family Sphagnaceae
The phylogenetic position of the Sphagnopsida among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Renzaglia, K. S.; Browning, W. B.; Merced, A. (2020). "With over 60 Independent Losses, Stomata Are Expendable in Mosses". Frontiers in Plant Science. 11: 567. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.00567. PMC 7270291. PMID 32547571.
  2. ^ 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 9780521872256.
  3. ^ 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. 98. Missouri Botanical Garden Press: 205-239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.


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