BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Platyhypnum norvegicum
| Scientific Name: | Platyhypnum norvegicum (Schimp.) Ochyra | ||||||||||
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Hygrohypnum norvegicum
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| 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. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Bryophyte | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | HYGRNOR | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G2 (May 1999) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S2S3 (Apr 2024) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Blue | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | On stones in wet places, arctic-alpine (Lawton 1971). In Fennoscandia, it occurs on irrigated rocks (Nyholm 1965-69). | ||||||||||
| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | Washington (Mt. Rainier) and British Columbia (Lawton 1971). Also from Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland (Jamieson 1976). | ||||||||||
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| Global Information Author: | Enns, A. | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Feb 25, 2020 | ||||||||||
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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. |
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Lawton, E. 1971. Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest. The Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan. |
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Nyholm, E. 1954-69. Illustrated moss flora of Fennoscandia. II. Musci. Fascicles1- 4. Gleerups, Lund; Fascicles 5-6, Swedish Natural Science Research Council, Stockholm. |
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2020. Species Summary: Platyhypnum norvegicum. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 4, 2026).