moss family
Noun
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A family of mosses (synset 111558116)
is a type of: family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more generasubtypes:
- anthocerotaceae, family anthocerotaceae - hornworts
- dicranaceae, family dicranaceae - mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome
- bryaceae, family bryaceae - a family of acrocarpous mosses
- family mniaceae, mniaceae - family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae
- family jungermanniaceae, jungermanniaceae - comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales
- family marchantiaceae, marchantiaceae - liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli
- family sphaerocarpaceae, sphaerocarpaceae - liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales
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)
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