Pleurocarpous mosses sister group

For the taxa sampled here, a clade including Leptostomum and all exemplars from Mniaceae s. lot. are the sister group of the rhizogonian mosses, the hypnodendroid pleurocarps and the Hypnidae. However, the support for this interpretation is inconclusive (DI = 1 bootstrap <50%). The sister group of Leptostomum + Mniaceae is a clade that includes Bartramiaceae and Rhacocarpus. 

The Lembophyllaceae are a family of pleurocarpous mosses that are conunon on rocks and tree bases, and are often pendant epiphytes. The Australasian taxa form a monophyletic group of closely related species. Putative sister groups to this clade are genera distributed widely in the Northern Hemisphere, North and South America and Asia. 

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