Andreaeobryum

Andreaeobryum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Andreaeobryopsida Goffinet & W.R.Buck[3]
Order:	Andreaeobryales B.M.Murray[2]
Family:	Andreaeobryaceae Steere & B.M.Murray
Genus:	Andreaeobryum Steere & B.M.Murray[1]
Species:	A. macrosporum
Binomial name
Andreaeobryum macrosporum Steere & B.M.Murray[1]

Andreaeobryum

Andreaeobryum is a genus of moss with a single species Andreaeobryum macrosporum, endemic to Alaska and western Canada.^[4] The genus is placed as a separate family, order and class among the mosses.^[5]

class Andreaeobryopsida order Andreaeobryales family Andreaeobraceae Andreaeobryum	Takakiopsida Sphagnopsida Andreaeopsida Andreaeobryum Oedipodiopsida Tetraphidopsida Polytrichopsida Bryopsida
The phylogenetic position of Andreaeobryum among the eight classes of mosses, based on inferences from DNA sequence data.[6][3]

References

1. Steere, W. C.; B. M. Murray (1976). "Andreaeobryum macrosporum, a new genus and species of Musci from northern Alaska and Canada". Phytologia. 33: 407–410. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.16794.
2. Murray, B. M. (1988). "Systematics of the Andreaeopsida (Bryophyta): Two orders with links to Takakia". Nova Hedwigia. 90: 289–336.
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.
4. Eckel, Patricia M. (2007). "Andreaeobryaceae". Flora of North America. Vol. 27. pp. 108–110.
5. Buck, William R.; Bernard Goffinet (2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In A. Jonathan Shaw; Bernard Goffinet (eds.). Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–123. ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
6. 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.

Further reading

• Eckel, Patricia M. 2007. Bryophyte Flora of North America: Andreaeobryaceae