English: fork-toothed mosses.
German: Gabelzahnmoose.
Genera: 24; 410 species; 2 subfamilies.
Clades:
Dicranales,
Dicranidae,
Bryophyta;
Plants.
Region: worldwide; in Europe only Cnestrum, Dicranum and Paraleucobryum.
BotanyMoss; perennial
Habitat: in lawns.
Stems: unbranched, sometimes forked.
Leaves: typically extended into a long, awl-shaped tip; sickle-shaped, inclined to one side of the stem; leaf cells are elongated rectangular at the base of the leaf, roundish to square in the upper part.
Capsules: on long stalks; 16 peristome teeth, simple, mostly deeply cleft.
TaxonomyDicranaceae is very similar to
Ditrichaceae, but usually contains smaller mosses.
Plant theoryIn the
Plant theory Calymperaceae, Hypodontiaceae,
Fissidentaceae are included.
GeneraDircanaceae: Anisothecium, Aongstroemia, Aongstroemiopsis, Braunfelsia, Brotherobryum, Bryotestua, Camptodontium, Campylopodium, Chorisodontium, Cnestrum, Cryptodicranum, Dicnemon, Dicranella, Dicranoloma, Dicranum, Diobelonella, Eucamptodon, Eucamptodontopsis, Holomitriopsis, Holomitrium, Hygrodicranum, Kiaeria, Leptotrichella, Leucoloma, Macrodictyum, Mesotus, Mitrobryum, Muscoherzogia, Orthodicranum, Paraleucobryum, Parisia, Platyneuron, Pocsiella, Polymerodon, Pseudephemerum, Pseudochorisodontium, Schliephackea, Sclerodontium, Sphaerothecium, Steyermarkiella, Wardia, Werneriobryum.
Calymperaceae:Arthrocormus, Calymperes, Exodictyon, Exostratum, Leucophanes, Mitthyridium, Octoblepharum, Syrrhopodon.
Hypodontiaceae: Hypodontium.
Fissidentaceae: Conomitrium, Fissidens, Moenkemeyera.