Timmia is a genus of moss. It is the only genus in the family Timmiaceae and order Timmiales.[2] The genus is named in honor of the 18th-century German botanist Joachim Christian Timm.[3]
| Timmia | |
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| Timmia megapolitana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Timmiidae Ochyra |
| Order: | Timmiales Ochyra |
| Family: | Timmiaceae Schimp. |
| Genus: | Timmia Hedw., 1801[1] |
| Species | |
The genus Timmia includes only four species:[3]
| Genus Timmia | |
| The species and phylogenetic position of Timmia.[4][5] | |
References
edit- ^ Hedwig, Johann (1801). Species Muscorum frondosorum descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii. Leipzig. p. 176.
- ^ 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). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.
- ^ a b Brassard, Guy R. (2007). "Timmiaceae". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America. Vol. 27. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 165–169. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
- ^ Goffinet, B.; W. R. Buck; A. J. Shaw (2008). "Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta". In Bernard Goffinet; A. Jonathan Shaw (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. ISBN 978-0-521-87225-6.
- ^ Goffinet, Bernard; William R. Buck (2004). "Systematics of the Bryophyta (Mosses): From molecules to a revised classification". Monographs in Systematic Botany. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. 98. Missouri Botanical Garden Press: 205–239. ISBN 1-930723-38-5.
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