Dicranaceae
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.
Botany
Moss; 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.
Taxonomy
Dicranaceae is very similar to Ditrichaceae, but usually contains smaller mosses.
Plant theory
In the Plant theory Calymperaceae, Hypodontiaceae, Fissidentaceae are included.
Genera
Dircanaceae: 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.