Bryales

The order Bryales includes the following five families:^[1][2]

• Bryaceae Schwägr.
• Leptostomataceae Schwägr.
• Mniaceae Schwägr.
• Phyllodrepaniaceae Schwägr.
• Pulchrinodaceae D. Quandt, N.E. Bell & Stech

The order used to be defined broadly to include the Rhizogoniales, but is now used in a narrower sense.^[3] A species of the Mniaceae genus Rhizomnium, Rhizomnium dentatum, was described from fossil gametophytes preserved in Baltic amber.^[4]

The families Catoscopiaceae and Pseudoditrichaceae were previously placed in Bryales, but are now placed in Dicranidae as part of an early branching grade.^[2][5]