Joint-toothed Mosses
Bryopsida
The Bryopsida constitute the largest class of mosses, containing 95% of all moss species. It consists of approximately 11,500 species, common throughout the whole world.
The group is distinguished by having spore capsules with teeth that are arthrodontous; the teeth are separate from each other and jointed at the base where they attach to the opening of the capsule. Consequently, mosses in the Class Bryopsida are commonly known as the "joint-toothed" or "arthrodontous" mosses. These teeth are exposed when the covering operculum falls off. In other groups of mosses, the capsule is either nematodontous with an attached operculum, or else splits open without operculum or teeth.
22 branches of this class, most-observed first
Feather Mosses
orderHypnales
Dicranales
orderDicranales
Bryales
orderBryales
Pottiales
orderPottiales
Orthotrichales
orderOrthotrichales
Grimmiales
orderGrimmiales
Funariales
orderFunariales
Hedwigiales
orderHedwigiales
Bartramiales
orderBartramiales
Aulacomniales
orderAulacomniales
Hypopterygiales
orderHypopterygiales
Hypnodendrales
orderHypnodendrales
Rhizogoniales
orderRhizogoniales
Encalyptales
orderEncalyptales
Hookeriales
orderHookeriales
Isobryales
orderIsobryales
Splachnales
orderSplachnales
Buxbaumiales
orderBuxbaumiales
Diphysciales
orderDiphysciales
Timmiales
orderTimmiales
Gigaspermales
orderGigaspermales
Catoscopiales
orderCatoscopiales
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Bryopsida in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48372.