HyperDic: family_mniaceae

English > 1 sense of the expression family Mniaceae:
NOUNplantfamily Mniaceae, Mniaceaefamily of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface
English > family Mniaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningfamily of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae.
SynonymMniaceae
Member ofEubryales, order Eubryalesmosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules
MembersMnium, genus Mniummosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger / larger
Broadermoss familyA family of mosses

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