Diphyscium

Classification System: Goffinet et al. (down to genus level)

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Bryophyta
Classis: Bryopsida
Subclassis: Buxbaumiidae
Ordo: Buxbaumiales

Familia: Buxbaumiaceae
Genus: Diphyscium
Species: D. auriculatum – D. chiapense – D. cumberlandianum – D. domingense – D. fasciculatum – D. fendleri – D. foliosum – D. fulvifolium – D. longifolium – D. loriae – D. malayense – D. mucronifolium – D. perminutum – D. peruvianum – D. pocsii – D. rupestre – D. satoi – D. submarginatum
Name

Diphyscium D.Mohr, 1803

Type species: Buxbaumia foliosa Hedw.

Synonyms

Hymenopogon P. Beauv. ex P. Beauv.

References

Mohr, D.M.H., 1891. Observationes Botanicae 34.

Links

The Plant List 2013. Diphyscium in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jul 14.
Tropicos.org 2019. Diphyscium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jul 14.

Vernacular names
suomi: Munasammalet

Diphyscium is a genus of mosses in the family Diphysciaceae.[1] Members of this genus are small, perennial plants. The capsule does not elongate much, and remains buried among surrounding leaves.

There are fifteen species of Diphyscium. However, two of these species formerly were placed in the southeast Asian genus Theriotia, and one species, from Chile, formerly was segregated in the monotypic genus Muscoflorschuetzia.[2] In 2003, Magombo proposed reclassifying all fifteen species as belonging to the single genus Diphyscium.[3]
References

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.
Schofield, Wilfred B. (2002). "Diphysciaceae". Flora of North America. 27. New York: Oxford Univ Pr. pp. 162–164. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.
Magombo, Z. L. K. (2003). "Taxonomic revision of the moss family Diphysciaceae M. Fleisch. (Musci)". Journal of the Hatori Botanical Laboratory. 94: 1–86.