Pleurophascaceae
''Pleurophascum'' is a genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the monotypic family Pleurophascaceae in the order Pottiales Pottiales is an order of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae. Classification The following families are recognised in ''Bryophyte Biology'': * Pottiaceae * Pleurophascaceae * Serpotortellaceae * Mitteniaceae Some other families are recogni .... Species Three species are recognised: *'' Pleurophascum grandiglobum'' *'' Pleurophascum occidentale'' *'' Pleurophascum ovalifolium'' References Moss genera Pottiales {{bryophyte-stub ...
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Pleurophascum Grandiglobum
''Pleurophascum grandiglobum'' is a moss endemic to Tasmania, Australia, and was first noted by Sextus Otto Lindberg, S. O. Lindberg in 1875 for its peculiar form of cleistocarpous Capsule (fruit), capsule, erect growth form, lateral perichaetia, and ecostate leaves. Its exceedingly large, inoperculate, and often brightly coloured capsules captured the heart of the 19th-century Scandinavian Bryology, bryologist, who considered the moss to be "of no less interest to the Museologist than is ''Rafflesia'' or ''Welwitschia'' to the Phanerogamist". The species currently belongs to a Monotypic taxon, monogeneric family ''Pleurophascaceae'' that is found only in Temperate climate, temperate Australasia and includes three different species. ''Pleurophascum ovalifolium'', heretofore known as ''P. grandiglobum'' var. ''decurrens'', is the New Zealand taxon while the last remaining member of the genus, ''Pleurophascum occidentale,'' occurs only in Western Australia. The relationship betwee ...
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