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Sphagnopsida

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Also known as Sphagnidae

Sphagnopsida is a class of mosses that includes a single subclass Sphagnidae, with two orders. It is estimated it originated about 465 million years ago, along with Takakia. The order Sphagnales contains four living genera: Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, and Flatbergium, which counts four species in total, and Sphagnum which contains the rest of the species. The extinct Protosphagnales contains a single fossil species.

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Vinony's link graph records 294 inbound references to Sphagnopsida, and connects out to Takakia, plant and deoxyribonucleic acid.

It sits within the topics Plant classes, Sphagnopsida and Taxa named by Ryszard Ochyra.

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Species

CLASS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumBryophyta
  3. ClassSphagnopsida
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded1,276,772

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
moss
Image
Sphagnum cuspidatum 041107a.jpg
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temporal range start
Permian
Commons category
Sphagnopsida
taxon rank
class
taxon name
Sphagnopsida
topic's main category
Category:Sphagnopsida
taxon common name
Torfowce
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Sphagnopsida is a class of mosses that includes a single subclass Sphagnidae, with two orders. It is estimated it originated about 465 million years ago, along with Takakia. The order Sphagnales contains four living genera: Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, and Flatbergium, which counts four species in total, and Sphagnum which contains the rest of the species. The extinct Protosphagnales contains a single fossil species.

==References== Shaw, A. Jonathan (2000). "Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences". The Bryologist. 103 (2): 277–306.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sphagnopsida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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