Species Summary

BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary

Discelium nudum

Scientific Name:

Discelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.

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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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Species

Species Group:

Bryophyte

Species Code:

DISCNUD

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
Plantae	Bryophyta	Bryopsida	Funariales	Disceliaceae

Conservation Status / Legal Designation

Global Status:

G3G4 (Jan 1999)

Provincial Status:

S3 (Apr 2024)

BC List:

Blue

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Found on clay or silt of recently denuded banks of streams, sometimes on landslides or steep roadcuts (Crum and Anderson 1981). At low altitudes (Lawton 1971). In Great Britain, a colonist of newly bared reservoir mud and acid clayey banks by streams and rivers, sometimes forming extensive mats. It has also been found on clay banks by roads, on china-clay waste, and on a muddy farm track (Hill et al 1994).

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In North America, known from Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, British Columbia (extirpated), Alberta, Quebec, and Northwest Territories. Known elsewhere from Finland, Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, England, and Japan (Crum and Anderson 1981). Very rare in Asia, known in Siberia from Tobolsk and the Yenisey region, and in the Far East from Sakhalin (Hill et al (1994).

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References and Related Literature

Backhouse, F. 2000. Extinct and Extirpated Species. B.C. Minist. Environ., Lands and Parks, Wildl. Branch. 6pp.

Crum, H.A., and L.E. Anderson. 1981. Mosses of eastern North America. 2 Volumes. Columbia Univ. Press, New York. 1328 pp.

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2007b. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 27. Bryophytes: Mosses, Part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. xxi + 713 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.

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Suggested Citation:

B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Discelium nudum. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 3, 2026).