Bryales
{{Short description|Order of mosses}}
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| image = Mosses on a tombstone.jpg
| image_caption = Bryum capillare
| taxon = Bryales
| authority = Limpr.
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Taxonomy
The order Bryales includes the following five families:{{cite book |last1=Goffinet |first1=B. |first2=W. R. |last2=Buck |first3=A. J. |last3=Shaw |year=2008 |chapter=Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta |pages=55–138 |editor-last1=Goffinet |editor-first1=B. |editor-first2=J. |editor-last2=Shaw |title=Bryophyte Biology |edition=2nd |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87225-6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=te0fAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT108}}{{cite web |last1=Goffinet |first1=B. |first2=W.R. |last2=Buck |title=Classification of extant moss genera |website=Classification of the Bryophyta |date=4 March 2014 |url=http://bryology.uconn.edu/classification/#DICRANIDAE |access-date=8 April 2020}}
- Bryaceae {{small|Schwägr.}}
- Leptostomataceae {{small|Schwägr.}}
- Mniaceae {{small|Schwägr.}}
- Phyllodrepaniaceae {{small|Schwägr.}}
- Pulchrinodaceae {{small|D. Quandt, N.E. Bell & Stech}}
The order used to be defined broadly to include the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). {{ISBN|0-521-66097-1}}. A species of the Mniaceae genus Rhizomnium, Rhizomnium dentatum, was described from fossil gametophytes preserved in Baltic amber.{{cite journal |last1=Heinrichs |first1=J |last2=Hedenäs |first2=L |last3=Schäfer-Verwimp |first3=A |last4=Feldberg |first4=K |last5=Schmidt |first5=AR |year=2014 |title=An in situ preserved moss community in Eocene Baltic amber |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=210 |pages=113–118 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.08.005}}
The families Catoscopiaceae and Pseudoditrichaceae were previously placed in Bryales, but are now placed in Dicranidae as part of an early branching grade.{{cite journal|last1=Fedosov|first1=Vladimir E.|last2=Fedorova|first2=Alina V.|last3=Fedosov|first3=Alexander E.|last4=Ignatov|first4=Michael S.|title=Phylogenetic inference and peristome evolution in haplolepideous mosses, focusing on Pseudoditrichaceae and Ditrichaceaes. l.|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=181|issue=2|year=2016|pages=139–155|issn=0024-4074|doi=10.1111/boj.12408|doi-access=free}}
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