Spoon-leaved moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 9
Special Significance of the Species
Bryoandersonia illecebra is significant in that it represents a monotypic genus, and is endemic to eastern North America. Endemism is atypical (15%) of Carolinian forest mosses (Crum 1966, 1972; Schofield 1992), and Bryoandersonia is one of only six moss genera endemic to eastern North America (Schofield 1992). Canadian occurrences help to delineate the northern limit of the species’ global range, making it one of many endangered Carolinian plants for which the only Canadian populations occur in south-west Ontario.
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