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Calomnion
Calomnion complanatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Subclass:	Bryidae
Order:	Rhizogoniales
Family:	Rhizogoniaceae
Genus:	Calomnion Hook.f. & Wilson

Calomnion is a genus of mosses in the family Rhizogoniaceae. They have been reported from Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, and eastern Indonesia.

Classification

The genus was originally placed within its own family, the Calomniaceae, with the genus Nadeaudia. Nadeudia contained one species, Nadeaudia schistostegiella, which is now considered a synonym for Calomnion schistostegiellum.

Species included in the genus are:

• Calomnion brownseyi Vitt & H.A. Mill.
• Calomnion ceramense Vitt
• Calomnion complanatum (Hook. f. & Wilson) Lindb. (type species)
• Calomnion denticulatum Mitt.
• Calomnion iwatsukii Vitt
• Calomnion lillianiae Vitt & H.A. Mill.
• Calomnion melanesicum H.A. Mill.
• Calomnion milleri Vitt
• Calomnion schistostegiellum (Besch.) Wijk & Margad.

References

1. Bell, Neil E.; Quandt, Dietmar; O'Brien, Terry J.; Newton, Angela E. (2007). "Taxonomy and Phylogeny in the Earliest Diverging Pleurocarps: Square Holes and Bifurcating Pegs". The Bryologist. 110 (3): 533–560. ISSN 0007-2745.
2. Vitt, D. H. 1991. A new species of Calomnion (Bryopsida) from Lord Howe Island. Novon 1: 53–55.
3. Vitt, D. H. 1995. The genus Calomnion (Bryopsida): taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography. Bryologist 98: 338–358.
4. "Tropicos".
5. The Plant List

• Moss genera
• Rhizogoniaceae
• Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker