Misplaced Pages

Hookeriales
Hookeria lucens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Subclass:	Bryidae
Superorder:	Hypnanae
Order:	Hookeriales
Families
See text.

Hookeriales is an order of Bryophyta or leafy mosses. Named for William Jackson Hooker, it is composed of mainly subtropical and tropical species of mosses with generally complanate and asymmetrical leaves.

Families

Hookeriales comprises the following families:

• Daltoniaceae
• Hookeriaceae
• Hypopterygiaceae
• Leucomiaceae
• Pilotrichaceae
• Saulomataceae
• Schimperobryaceae

References

1. Smith, A. J. E.; Smith, Ruth (2004). The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 698. ISBN 9780521546720.

This Bryopsida-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Hookeriales
• Hypnanae
• Moss orders
• Taxa named by James Edward Smith
• Bryopsida stubs