Brachytheciaceae + Meteoriaceae

Huttunen, S., Ignatov, M. S., Muller, K. and Quandt, D. (2004) Phylogeny and evolution of epiphytism in the three moss famihes Meteoriaceae, Brachytheciaceae, and Lembophyllaceae. In Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes (ed. B. Goffinet, V. HolloweU and R.MagUl). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, pp. 328-361. 

Ignatov, M. S. (1999) Bryophyte flora of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. LXIII. On the pseudopara-phyUia in Brachytheciaceae and Meteoriaceae (Musci). Acta Botanica Fennica, 165 73-83. 

Huttunen, S. (2004a) Bryophyte flora of the Hunan Province, China. 9. Meteoriaceae (Musci) I. Chrysocladium, Duthiella, Meteorium, Pseudospiridentopsis, Sinskea, Toloxis, and Trachypodopsis with identification key for Meteoriaceae in Hunan. In Phylogeny and Evolutionary Relationships on the Moss Families Meteoriaceae and Brachytheciaceae. Publications in Botany from the University of Helsinki, 34 Article II 1-34. 

Huttunen, S. (2004b) Phylogeny and evolutionary relationships on the moss families Meteoriaceae and Brachytheciaceae. Publications in Botany from the University of Helsinki, 34 Introduction 1-33. 

FIGURE 13.4 The three most common types of arrangement of the first psendoparaphyllium around branch primordia in the Hypnales. In all three cases the stem apex is directed npwards. (A) The four-eleven-o clock type, which is the most common one, found in the Amblystegiaceae, Hylocomiaceae, Leskeaceae, etc. (B) The Brachytheciaceae and Meteoriaceae type, with the first psendoparaphyllinm pointing downwards, and the second and third at 120° to the first one. (C) The low spiral type known from taxa snch as Thamnobryum and Trachyloma. 

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