| Hypopterygiaceae | |
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| Hypopterygium didictyon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Bryophyta |
| Class: | Bryopsida |
| Subclass: | Bryidae |
| Superorder: | Hypnanae |
| Order: | Hypopterygiales Goffinet |
| Family: | Hypopterygiaceae Mitt. |
The Hypopterygiaceae are a family of mainly tropical mosses of the order Hypopterygiales,[1] a sister-group to the Hookeriales and Hypnales.
It contains eight genera.[2][3]
- Arbusculohypopterygium Stech, T. Pfeiffer & W. Frey
- Canalohypopterygium W. Frey & Schaepe
- Catharomnion Hook.f. & Wilson
- Cyathophorum P. Beauv.
- Dendrocyathophorum Dixon
- Dendrohypopterygium Kruijer
- Hypopterygium Brid.
- Lopidium Hook.f. & Wilson
- ^ Liu, Yang; Johnson, Matthew G.; Cox, Cymon J.; Medina, Rafael; Devos, Nicolas; Vanderpoorten, Alain; Hedenäs, Lars; Bell, Neil E.; Shevock, James R.; Aguero, Blanka; Quandt, Dietmar; Wickett, Norman J.; Shaw, A. Jonathan; Goffinet, Bernard (2019). "Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes". Nature Communications. 10 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09454-w. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6445109.
- ^ Lepp, Heino (2012). "Bryogeography of the Hypopterygiaceae". Australian Bryophytes. Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ^ Goffinet, B.; Buck, W.R. "Classification of extant moss genera". Classification of the Bryophyta. Retrieved 27 July 2020.