# Diphyscium

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***Diphyscium*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [mosses](/source/Moss) in the family **Diphysciaceae**.[1] Members of this genus are small, perennial plants. The capsule does not elongate much, and remains buried among surrounding leaves.

There are fifteen species of *Diphyscium*. However, two of these species formerly were placed in the [southeast Asian](/source/Southeast_Asia) genus *Theriotia*, and one species, from [Chile](/source/Chile), formerly was segregated in the monotypic genus *Muscoflorschuetzia*.[2] In 2003, Magombo proposed reclassifying all fifteen species as belonging to the single genus *Diphyscium*.[3]

## References

1. Buck, William R. & Bernard Goffinet. 2000. "Morphology and classification of mosses", pages 71-123 *in* A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), *Bryophyte Biology*. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ISBN 0-521-66097-1.

1. Schofield, Wilfred B. (2002). ["Diphysciaceae"](http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10281). *Flora of North America*. Vol. 27. New York: Oxford Univ Pr. pp. 162–164. ISBN 978-0-19-531823-4.

1. Magombo, Z. L. K. (2003). "Taxonomic revision of the moss family Diphysciaceae M. Fleisch. (Musci)". *Journal of the Hatori Botanical Laboratory*. **94**: 1–86.

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