class musci

1. True mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales;
   Bryales;
   Dicranales;
   Eubryales;
   Sphagnales (synset 111559386)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • andreaeales, order andreaeales - comprises a single genus: Andreaea
   • bryales, order bryales - category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space
   • dicranales, order dicranales - widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems
   • eubryales, order eubryales - mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules
   • order sphagnales, sphagnales - coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
   belongs to: bryophyta, division bryophyta - a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
   same as: bryopsida, class bryopsida, musci

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