Species: Buxbaumia aphylla
Bug-on-a-stick
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Buxbaumiales
Family
Buxbaumiaceae
Genus
Buxbaumia
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Non-Vascular - Mosses
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Bryophyta - Bryopsida - Buxbaumiales - Buxbaumiaceae - Buxbaumia
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2001-01-12
Global Status Last Changed
2001-01-31
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Buxbaumia aphylla is ". widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere: Greenland; central Alaska and the Yukon to British Columbia and Montana; Michigan and Ontario to Newfoundland, southward along the Coastal Plain and also in the mountains to North Carolina. Also reported from arctic Alaska, Colorado, eastern Iowa, and southern Illinois" (Crum & Anderson 1981). Smith (1980) gives the ranges as Europe, Caucasus, N. Asia, Japan, N. America and New Zealand. Found throughout Fennoscandia (Nyholm 1954-69). Schofield (1974) provides a generalized world map of the species.