Timmia is a genus of moss. It is the only genus in the family Timmiaceae and order Timmiales.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). . The genus is named in honor of the 18th-century German botanist Joachim Christian Timm.
The genus Timmia includes only four species:
Genus Timmia Timmia austriaca Timmia megapolitana Timmia norvegica Timmia sibirica The species and phylogenetic position of Timmia.
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