Summary description from Wikipedia:

Brachytheciaceae in languages:

Chinese

青蘚科

Czech

baňatkovité

Estonian

lühikupralised

Hungarian

pintycsőrű mohafélék

Japanese

アオギヌゴケ科

Korean

양털이끼과

Lithuanian

Trumpiniai

Polish

Krótkoszowate

Russian

Брахитециевые

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Parent Taxon

• Hypnales

Sibling Taxa

• Amblystegiaceae
• Anomodontaceae
• Antitrichiaceae
• Brachytheciaceae
• Calliergonaceae
• Catagoniaceae
• Climaciaceae
• Cryphaeaceae
• Echinodiaceae
• Entodontaceae
• Fabroniaceae
• Fontinalaceae
• Habrodontaceae
• Heterocladiellaceae
• Hylocomiaceae
• Hypnaceae
• Jocheniaceae
• Lembophyllaceae
• Leptodontaceae
• Leskeaceae
• Leucodontaceae
• Meteoriaceae
• Microtheciellaceae
• Myriniaceae
• Myuriaceae
• Neckeraceae
• Orthorrhynchiaceae
• Plagiotheciaceae
• Pleuroziopsaceae
• Pseudoleskeaceae
• Pseudoleskeellaceae
• Pterigynandraceae
• Pterobryaceae
• Pylaisiaceae
• Rhytidiaceae
• Rigodiaceae
• Scorpidiaceae
• Sematophyllaceae
• Sorapillaceae
• Stereodontaceae
• Stereophyllaceae
• Thamnobryaceae
• Theliaceae
• Thuidiaceae

Child Taxa

• Aerolindigia
• Brachytheciastrum
• Brachythecium
• Bryhnia
• Bryoandersonia
• Camptothecium
• Catagoniopsis
• Chamberlainia
• Cirriphyllum
• Claopodium
• Eriodon
• Eurhynchiastrum
• Eurhynchiella
• Eurhynchium
• Flabellidium
• Hedenasiastrum
• Helicodontiadelphus
• Homalotheciella
• Homalothecium
• Kindbergia
• Microeurhynchium
• Myuroclada
• Nobregaea
• Oxyrrhynchium
• Palamocladium
• Platyhypnidium
• Pseudorhynchostegiella
• Pseudoscleropodium
• Remyella
• Rhynchostegiella
• Rhynchostegium
• Rozea
• Sainthelenia
• Sciuro-hypnum
• Scleropodium
• Scorpiurium
• Steerecleus

Top Observation Places

• Oxford
• Eugene
• Bristol
• Hilversum
• Göttingen
• Dudley
• West Bromwich
• Kirkland
• Stockholm
• Södermalm
• Kungsholmen
• Vasastan
• Shrewsbury
• Calgary
• Near North Side
• Lincoln Park
• Skokie
• Albany Park
• Winnipeg
• Kreuzberg
• Charlottenburg
• Schöneberg
• Mitte
• Wilmersdorf
• Lichterfelde
• Moabit
• Steglitz
• Tempelhof
• Zehlendorf
• Mytishchi
• Gol’yanovo
• Korolev
• Ivanovskoye
• Veshnyaki
• Izmaylovo
• Bogorodskoye
• Novogireyevo
• Yaroslavskiy
• Babushkin
• Reutov
• Moscow
• Khimki
• Yasenevo
• Khoroshëvo-Mnevniki
• Strogino
• Ramenki
• Tyoply Stan
• Presnenskiy
• Zyuzino
• Solntsevo