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Hypnobryales

plural noun
Hyp·no·bryales | \"+\

Definition of Hypnobryales 

: an order of Musci comprising mosses with a pleurocarpous sporophyte and a capsule usually inclined at the end of a long seta and with an entire endostome

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History and Etymology for Hypnobryales

New Latin, from hypno- (from Hypnum, genus of mosses) + Bryales

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