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Leptodontaceae
Sign in to saveLeptodontaceae is a family of mosses belonging to the order Hypnales. There are 3 genera with a worldwide distribution.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Neckeraceae
- Collections
- MEL, IPA/SP, AADC, UFPE, JBRJ, BPBM
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Japan
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Leptodontaceae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon author citation
- Schimp.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Genera
- References
Leptodontaceae is a family of mosses belonging to the order Hypnales. There are 3 genera with a worldwide distribution.
Most of the genera of family Leptodontaceae, originally came from family Neckeraceae, Such as Caduciella came into Leptodontaceae in 1991.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leptodontaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.