Pleurocarpous mosses

Hedenas, L. (2007). Global diversity patterns among pleurocarpous mosses. Ihe Bryologist 110,319-331. 

Pleurocarpous Mosses Systematics and Evolution (2006)j=t Edited by A.E. Newton and R.S. Tangney... 

Bryologists who place the priority of a system on the peristome alone, thereby separating closely related taxa, bring together almost the whole cohort of pleurocarpous mosses into one family, and whatever the external appearance may be, which is the only feature available to the inexpert beginner, they refer... 

Schimper, therefore, not only created the first modem familial classification of pleurocarpous mosses, but reversed the philosophy upon which the classification was based. His pioneering efforts laid the groundwork from which all subsequent classification attempts diverged. 

The one real weakness with both Schimper s and Mitten s classihcations is that they considered only regional floras. Since most pleurocarpous moss families occur over multi-continental ranges, it is often difficult for a parochial work to account for the total range of morphological variation in a family. Most regional floristicians are not familiar with the total possibihties of generic inclusions. This is particularly relevant for pleurocarps in which most of the families have a tropical center of diversity. 

In the same way that Brotherus (1901-1909) cnlminated the era in which classification of pleurocarpous mosses was dominated by the gametophyte, later on Brotherus (1924, 1925) took Fleischer s lead in sporophytic emphasis and applied it across the board to the pleurocarps in the second edition of Die natilrlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Dixon (1932) summarized this philosophy in Verdoom s Manual of Bryology. 

Buck, W. R. (1991) The basis for familial classification of pleurocarpous mosses. Advances in Bryology, 4 169-185. 

Buck, W. R., Goffinet, B. and Shaw, A. J. (2000) Testing morphological concepts of orders of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta) using phylogenetic reconstructions based on tmL-tmF and rps4 sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 16 180-198. 

Hedenas, L. (1989) Some neglected character distribution patterns among the pleurocarpous mosses. Bryologist, 92 157-163. 

Hedenas, L. (2002) Important complexes of intercorrelated character states in pleurocarpous mosses. Lind-bergia, 27 104-121. 

Mosses (Musci) include at least 10,000 species (e.g.. Buck and Goffinet, 2000 Shaw et al., 2003) to as many as 12,000 extant species (Crosby et al., 2004 Goffinet and Buck, 2004). The bryalean pleurocarpous mosses (pleurocarps), including the Rhizogonianae and Hypnidae (Goffinet and Buck,... 

The Phylogenetic Distribution of Pleurocarpous Mosses Evidence from cpDNA Sequences 21... 

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