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Definition of Mniaceae
1. Noun. Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae.
Generic synonyms: Moss Family
Group relationships: Eubryales, Order Eubryales
Member holonyms: Genus Mnium, Mnium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mniaceae
Literary usage of Mniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"This is observed in a number of Bryaceae, Hypnaceae, and Mniaceae (Fig. 127).
The mouth of the capsule is here mostly directed downwards; the spores reach ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... of the Mniaceae,—and Polytrichum are spoken of as offering a close i
Brongniart (282) p. 93. 2 Renault and Zeiller (88) p. 34, PI. XLI. figs. ..."
3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1871)
"Bogs are rich in certain species, especially of Mniaceae, with Hypnum cuspidatum,
cordifolium, giganteum, fluitans, nitens, AC. ..."
4. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Mniaceae. "Wood Mosses." Rather large, leafy plants, with ovoid to cylindrical,
pendent capsule; peristome usually ..."
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