Funariaceae
Funaria hygrometrica
The Funariaceae are a family of mosses ( Bryophyta ) and include about 250 species occurring worldwide.
Features
The Moose are very small to medium in size and usually grow annuals or small cushions on the ground. You are akrokarp and usually have large central strands. The protonema is short-lived. The leaves are ovate to lanceolate. The lamina cells are large, loose and smooth and rectangular to hexagonal. The Seta is usually elongated, straight or curved. The ovate to elliptic capsules are sunk to pre-stretched, erect or curved, symmetrical to highly asymmetrical. The spores are of variable form, the calyptra is large, typically lobed and cut or miter -shaped.
Occurrence
The world's occurring Funariaceae grow primarily on nutrient- rich sites, but always terrestrial.
System
Which belongs to the order of Funariales family consists of 15 genera with about 250 species, which are divided into two subfamilies:
- Subfamily Funarioideae, ~ 240 species worldwide Aphanorrhegma, 1 kind, eastern North America Aphanorrhegma serratum
- Brachymeniopsis gymnostoma
- Bryobeckettia bartlettii
- Clavitheca poeltii
- Cygnicollum immersum
- Funaria hygrometrica
- Funariella curviseta
- Loiseaubryum nutans
- Nanomitriella ciliata
- Physcomitrella patens
- Physcomitrellopsis africana
- Physcomitrium pyriforme
- Steppomitra hadacii
- Subfamily Pyramiduloideae Goniomitrium, 4 kinds, Spain, Macaronesia, South Africa and Australasia
- Pyramidula, 1 type, Europe, North Africa, Israel