Hygrohypnum styriacum

Taxobox
name = Snow Brook-moss


regnum = Plantae
divisio = Bryophyta
classis = Bryopsida
subclassis = Bryidae
ordo = Hypnales
familia = Campyliaceae
genus = "Hygrohypnum"
species = "H. styriacum"
binomial = "Hygrohypnum styriacum"
binomial_authority = (Limpr.) Broth. [http://www.biodiversityscotland.gov.uk/sbl_detail.php?id=39&type=2&navID=93&pageref=sbl_detail&tvk=NBNSYS0000036834 "The Scottish Biodiversity List - Species & Habitat Detail"] BiodiversityScotland. Retrieved 19 May 2008.] "Hygrohypnum styriacum", commonly known as Snow Brook-moss or Hygrohypnum Moss [ [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HYST5 "PLANTS Profile: Hygrohypnum styriacum"] US Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 19 May 2008.] is a species of moss found in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is present in Greenland [Goldberg, Irena (2003) [http://www.nathimus.ku.dk/BOT/DIV/gr_moss.pdf "Mosses of Greenland: List of Species in the Herbarium C"] (pdf) Botanical Museum and Library, University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 18 May 2008.] Iceland, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Scotland. [ [http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/H/Hygrohypnum_styriacum.asp "Hygrohypnum styriacum: (Hygrohypnum Moss)"] ZipcodeZoo. Retrieved 19 May 2008.] The Scottish population is restricted to Coire an t-Sneachda in the Cairngorm mountains where it was first discovered in 1989. [ Rothero, Gordon "Bryophytes", in Shaw, Philip and Thompson, Des (eds.) (2006) "The Nature of the Cairngorms: Diversity in a changing environment". Edinburgh. The Stationery Office. ISBN 0114973261. p. 200.]

The species occupies arctic and alpine habitats. [It is specifically identified as an "Arctic-Alpine" species by Rothero (2006) p. 209 although the Biodiversity Scotland database describes it as "montane".] It is classified as "Imperiled" in British Columbia [ [http://www.davidsuzuki.org/files/SWAG/Species/Biodiversity-Article-BCSpecies-Appendices.pdf "Appendix: Species at risk"] (pdf) davidsuzuki.org Retrieved 19 May 2008.] and in Britain is considered to be "Critically Endangered". [ [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Bryodiversity/tbdp.htm "Threatened Bryophyte Database (TBDB)"] British Bryophyte Society. Retrieved 17 May 2008.]

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