Species Summary

BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary

Sphaerocarpos texanus

Scientific Name:

Sphaerocarpos texanus Aust.

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Classification / Taxonomy

Scientific Name - Concept Reference:

Stotler, R. and B. Crandall-Stotler. 1977. A checklist of the liverworts and hornworts of North America. The Bryologist 80(3): 405-428.

Classification Level:

Species

Species Group:

Bryophyte

Species Code:

SPHATEX

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
Plantae	Hepatophyta	Marchantiopsida	Sphaerocarpales	Sphaerocarpaceae

Conservation Status / Legal Designation

Global Status:

G5 (Dec 1994)

Provincial Status:

S4 (Apr 2023)

BC List:

Yellow

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Global Range Comment:

This species is widespread in disturbed habitats from South Carolina west to California, but is absent from the intermountain west; it is also common in southern and central Europe, northern Africa, and Australia (Stotler and Crandall-Stotler, 2017).

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References and Related Literature

Golinski, K. 2014e. Excel spreadsheet of University of British Columbia Herbarium label data for Liverworts created for BC Conservation Data Centre, BC Ministry of Environment. Vancouver, BC

Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.

Suggested Citation:

B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Sphaerocarpos texanus. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 5, 2026).