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Pleurophascum
Pleurophascum grandiglobum, growing on the subalpine buttongrass moorlands along Gelignite creek, Scotts Peak Dam Road
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Bryophyta
Class:	Bryopsida
Subclass:	Dicranidae
Order:	Pleurophascales
Family:	Pleurophascaceae Broth.
Genus:	Pleurophascum Lindb.
Species
3 species (see text)

Pleurophascum is a genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the monotypic family Pleurophascaceae. The family was previously place in the order Pottiales, but is not place in its own monotypic order, Pleurophascales.

Species

Three species are recognised:

• Pleurophascum grandiglobum Lindb.
• Pleurophascum occidentale R.E. Wyatt & A.H. Stoneb.
• Pleurophascum ovalifolium Fife & Dalton

References

1. Goffinet, B.; Buck, W. R.; Shaw, A. J. (2008). "Morphology and Classification of the Bryophyta". In Goffinet, B.; Shaw, J. (eds.). Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–138. ISBN 978-0-521-87225-6.
2. ^ Goffinet, B.; Buck, W.R. (31 March 2020). "Classification of extant moss genera". Classification of the Bryophyta. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
3. Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A Classification of the Dicranidae". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
4. "Pleurophascum Lindb". World Flora Online. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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