Wardia

Wardia hygrometrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Dicranales
Family: Dicranaceae
Genus: Wardia
Harv. & Hook.
Species: W. hygrometrica
Binomial name
Wardia hygrometrica
Harv. & Hook.

Wardia is a monotypic genus of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae; it contains only the species Wardia hygrometrica, "an aquatic moss endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa."[1] Because it is an aquatic moss, it was first classified in the Fontinalaceae, but molecular studies have shown that it is more closely related to the Dicranaceae.

References

  1. Hedderson, Terry A., Cymon J. Cox, & J. George Gibbins. 1999. Pylogenetic Relationships of the Wardiaceae (Musci); Evidence from 18s rRNA and rps4 Gene Sequences. The Bryologist 102 (1): 26-31.


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