Species Summary

BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary

Nogopterium gracile

Scientific Name:

Nogopterium gracile (Hedwig) Crosby & W.R. Buck

Scientific Name Synonyms:

Pterogonium gracile

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Classification / Taxonomy

Scientific Name - Concept Reference:

Anderson, L.E., H.A. Crum, and W.R. Buck. 1990. List of the mosses of North America north of Mexico. The Bryologist 93(4):448-499.

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Bryophyte

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PTERGRA

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
Plantae	Bryophyta	Bryopsida	Leucodontales	Leucodontaceae

Conservation Status / Legal Designation

Global Status:

G3G4 (May 1999)

Provincial Status:

S3S4 (Apr 2023)

BC List:

Yellow

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On rocks and trees (Lawton 1971). In Great Britain, as patches on shaded rocks or tree bases, frequent in basic areas (Smith 1980). Hill et al (1994) provide a detailed account of its habitat in the latter region: "... on the sloping or vertical sides of rocks and boulders in sheltered, well-insolated sites or in shaded localities, sometimes by water on dry rocks such as basalt, dolerite, gabbro or calcareous tuff and is locally abundant on shaded serpentine on the Lizard Peninsula. It also grows on acidic rocks by the sea, but only rarely on calcareous sedimentary rocks or in turf over calcareous sand. Pterogonium is also found as an epiphyte on the bases or trunks of trees, usually on the base-rich bark species such as ash, elder, elm, poplar and sycamore buta also on oak".

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Known from British Columbia, south through Washington and Oregon to California (Lawton 1971). In Europe, from south and western Europe, extending north to Norway; common in the Mediterranean countries at moderate altitudes; Macaronesia, Africa from the Mediterranean to the Cape, southwest Asia (Hill et al 1994). Scattered in the southern parts of Fennoscandia (Nyholm 1954-69). Also in Madeira, Canaries, and Reunion (Smith 1978).

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References and Related Literature

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2014a. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 28. Bryophytes: Mosses, part 2. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. vii + 702 pp.

Hill, M.O., C.D. Preston, & A.J.E. Smith. 1994. Atlas of the bryophytes of Britain and Ireland. Volume 3. Mosses (Diplolepideae). Harley Books, England.

Lawton, E. 1971. Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest. The Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan.

Smith, A.J.E. 1978b. The moss flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 706 pp.

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Suggested Citation:

B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Nogopterium gracile. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 4, 2026).