Funariaceae

{{Short description|Family of mosses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Funaria hygrometrica1.jpg

| image_caption = Funaria hygrometrica

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Funariaceae

| authority = Schwägr.

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

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|Aphanorrhegma

|Brachymeniopsis

|Bryobeckettia

|Clavitheca

|Cygnicollum

|Entosthodon

|Ephemerella

|Funaria

|Funariella

|× Funariophyscomitrella

|Goniomitrium

|Loiseaubryum

|Nanomitriella

|Physcomitrella

|Physcomitrellopsis

|Physcomitrium

|Pyramidula

}}

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The Funariaceae are a family of mosses in the order Funariales.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}}. About 303 species are included in the family, with 200 species in Funaria and another 80 classified in Physcomitrium.{{cite book| last= McIntosh | first= Terry T. | year=2002 | title=Flora of North America | volume=27 | chapter=Funariaceae | pages=180–199 | chapter-url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10352 | isbn=978-0-19-531823-4| publisher= Oxford Univ Pr| location= New York }}

The genus Goniomitrium has been recently moved from the Pottiaceae to the Funariaceae.{{cite journal| last=Goffinet | first=Bernard |author2=Norman J. Wickett |author3=Olaf Werner |author4=Rosa Maria Ros |author5=A. Jonathan Shaw |author6=Cymon J. Cox | year=2007 | title=Distribution and Phylogenetic Significance of the 71-kb Inversion in the Plastid Genome in Funariidae (Bryophyta) | journal=Annals of Botany | volume=99 | pages=747–753| doi=10.1093/aob/mcm010| pmid=17337480| issue=4| pmc=2802940 }}