Bryales is an order of mosses.
Taxonomy
The order Bryales includes the following five families:
Bryaceae Leptostomataceae Mniaceae Phyllodrepaniaceae Pulchrinodaceae
The order used to be defined broadly to include the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.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). . A species of the Mniaceae genus Rhizomnium, Rhizomnium dentatum, was described from fossil gametophytes preserved in Baltic amber.
The families Catoscopiaceae and Pseudoditrichaceae were previously placed in Bryales, but are now placed in Dicranidae as part of an early branching grade.
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