2024 Plant Changes

Additions: Eleven vascular plants were added to the B.C. flora.  Of the 11, three are native species, with two species, straight-seed mudwort (Elatine orthosperma), and clustered burred (Sparganium glomeratum) potentially being native species. Six Exotic species were added.

Of those native species, one is an overlooked hybrid, hybrid columbine (Aquilegia x miniana), a hybrid between A. formosa and A. flavescens. There were also two native species of Erigeron added to the B.C. flora from the Elk Valley, Lackschewitz's fleabane (E. lackschewitzii), reidentified from E. ochroleucus, and dwarf fleabane (E. radicatus), both of which are now B.C. CDC Red-listed.

Among the Exotics now included in the B.C. flora are Hjelmqvist's cotoneaster (Cotoneaster hjelmqvistii), now known from Ucluelet, Tofino, and an uninhabited island in the Fraser River near Agassiz, and diploid timothy (Phleum bertolonii), now established in at least five sites in Metro Vancouver.

Excluded: Nine vascular plants were excluded from the B.C. flora. Of the nine, seven were due to reidentification, including tiny suncress (Boechera paupercula), because there are no longer any specimens identified as this species in B.C. in the herbaria. Monardella (Monardella odoratissima) was excluded due to uncertain provenance in B.C.

Taxonomic/Name Changes:  Eleven changes in taxonomic classification and nomenclature were made this year to vascular plants. Three-flowered waterwort (Elantine rubella) was renamed E. triandra, to better reflect the morphology observed. Five species of Lupinus were updated to reflect the taxonomic treatment published in Volume 11 of the Flora of North America.

Two English name changes were also made this year.

Status Assessment:  Only one vascular plant species had a change to its provincial conservation status rank this year. This change was due to a new interpretation of existing information. Sulphur lupine (Lupinus sulphureus var. sulphureus) was changed to SU due to conflicting views on the species provenance due to disjunction beyond dispersal capacity in pastures with a long history of grazing activity.

Additions: Nine lichens were added to the B.C. CDC list.  Eight of these are reported from Spribille et al. 2020, “Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park,” in which localities in B.C. are cited. One of these additions was posted on iNaturalist in 2020 by Eva Ullström (Ricasolia amplissima ssp. sheiyi). Specimens from the Tofino area have been previously deposited at UBC under Lobaria amplissima allowing us to officially add the species.

Excluded: None.

Very little was done on this group this year, but the General Status contracts will support reviews in the coming year(s). Two macrofungal name changes were made (to Fomitopsis mounceae and Sparassis radicata) following the literature and advice from Jim Ginns (P. Kroeger, J. Ginns, pers. comms. 2023).

Additions: Nine lichens were added to the B.C. CDC list.  Eight of these are reported from Spribille et al. 2020, “Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park,” in which localities in B.C. are cited. One of these additions was posted on iNaturalist in 2020 by Eva Ullström (Ricasolia amplissima ssp. sheiyi). Specimens from the Tofino area have been previously deposited at UBC under Lobaria amplissima allowing us to officially add the species.

Excluded: None.

Taxonomic/Name Changes: Three changes in taxonomic classification and nomenclature were made this year to lichens.

Status Assessment: No changes made this year.

Additions: Eleven liverworts were added to the B.C. flora. 

Excluded: Eight liverworts were excluded from the B.C. flora.

Taxonomic/Name Changes: No changes in taxonomic classification and nomenclature were made this year to liverworts.

Status Assessment: Eighteen liverwort species had a change to their provincial conservation status rank this year. Fifteen of them went from Blue-listed to Yellow-listed.

A single change was made to this group this year:  Irpicodon pendulus, a conspicuous bracket fungus recently reported on iNaturalist from Otter Point and Port Alberni, was added to the B.C. myco-flora. A specimen is held at UBC from Camosun Bog in Vancouver.

Additions: Four mosses were added to the B.C. flora.  Three of these are based on research by Kramer (2023) and Gallego et al. (2002) on the genus, Syntrichia, which has received a lot of attention in recent years, and turns out to be an interesting group in B.C.

Excluded: One moss was excluded from the B.C. flora.

Taxonomic/Name Changes: Seven changes in taxonomic classification and nomenclature were made this year to mosses, of which four of them were to entities within Syntrichia.

Status Assessment: 199 moss species had a change to their provincial conservation status rank this year. These changes were primarily due to new information being gathered not reflecting genuine change. Seventy-one moss species have been reassessed from Red-listed to Blue-listed, and 80 moss species have been reassessed from Blue-listed to Yellow-listed.

Additions: Two slime molds were added to the B.C. slime mold list. 

Excluded: Seven slime molds were excluded from the B.C. flora.

Taxonomic/Name Changes: No changes in taxonomic classification and nomenclature were made this year to slime molds.

Status Assessment: One slime mold species had a change to their provincial conservation status rank this year.

Vascular Plants

Batten, Ryan. Personal Communication. Botanist, Conservation Data Centre, Victoria, B.C.

Bennett, Bruce. Personal Communication. Botanist, Whitehorse, YT.

Cronk, Q. 2023. The correct name for an Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) hybrid of the parentage Aquilegia flavescens x formosa. PhytoKeys 220: 31-38        

Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993.  Flora of North America North of Mexico: Volume 3. 3. Meconella oregana Nuttall in J. Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 64. 1838 New York and Oxford.  Web site: http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/ [accessed January 2004]. 

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.             

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2014b. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 9. Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 713 pp.            

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2014b. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 9. Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 713 pp.            

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2014b. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 9. Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 713 pp.            

Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2014b. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 9. Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 713 pp.            

Hitchcock, C.L. and A. Cronquist. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual, 2nd Edition. Edited by D.E. Giblin, B.S. Legler, P.F. Zika, and R.G. Olmstead. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. 882 pp.

Iamonico, D. and S.L. Mosyakin. 2018. Studies on Chenopodium album s. l. (Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae s. l.): Chenopodium pedunculare. Annali di Botanica. Roma 8: 67-74.

Lomer, Frank. Personal Communication. Botanist, Consultant, New Westminster, B.C.

Nordens Flora. 2018. Bo Mossberg and Lennart Stenberg, Bonnier Fakto.

Stace, C.A. 2010. New flora of the British Isles (third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 1266 pp.         

              

Lichens

Hafellner, J. and R. Türk. 2016. The lichenized fungi of Austria – a new checklist of the taxa so far recorded, with data to distribution and substrate ecology. Stapfia 104 (1): 1-216.

McCune, B., U. Arup, O. Breuss, E. Di Meglio, J. Di Meglio, T.L. Esslinger, J. Miadlikowska, A.E. Miller, R. Rosentreter, M. Schultz, J. Sheard, T. Tønsberg & J. Walton. 2020. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(2): 586–619.

Simon, A., B. Goffinet, L. Wang, T. Spribille, T. Goward, T. Pystina, N. Semenova, N.V. Stepanov, B. Moncada, R. Lücking, N. Magain, and E. Sérusiaux. 2022. Taxon. Vol. 71 (2): 256-287.

Spribille, T., A.M. Fryday, S. Pérez-Ortega, M. Svensson, T. Tønsberg, S. Ekman, H. Holien, P. Resl, K. Schneider, E. Stabentheiner, H. Thüs, J. Vondrák and L. Sharman. 2020 Lichens and Associated Fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. The Lichenologist 52: 61–181.

Spribille, T. and L. Muggia. 2013. Expanded taxon sampling disentangles evolutionary relationships and reveals a new family in Peltigerales (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota). Fungal Diversity 58, 171–184.

Liverworts

Bakalin, V. 2011. Notes on Lophozia VI. Taxonomy and distribution of Lophozia and Schistochilopsis (Lophoziaceae) in North America north of Mexico. The Bryologist, 114(2), 298–315. https://doi.org/10.1639/0007-2745.114.2.298

Bakalin, V. A. 2018. Lepidoziaceae. Bryophyte Flora of North America Provisional Publication. https://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/V3/Lepidoziaceae.htm

Bell, D. 2020. Systematics of deep and recent lineages of bryophytes using phylogenomic approaches Doctoral Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/24/1.0394088/4

Golinski, Karen G. Personal Communication. Ph.D. Collections Curator, Bryophytes, lichens and fungi. UBC Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Vancouver, B.C.

Hong, W.S. 2002. Comparison of hepatic flora and floristic affinities among four neighboring islands, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Northwest Science 76: 286-292.

Mindell, Randal. 2022. Personal Communication. Courtenay, B.C.

Söderström, L., et al. (41 authors) 2016. World checklist of hornworts and liverworts. PhytoKeys. 59. 1-828.

Stotler, R.E. and B. Crandall-Stotler. 2017. Synopsis of Liverwort Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102, Number 4: 574-709.

Mosses

COSEWIC. 2004p. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the alkaline wing-nerved moss Pterygoneurum kozlovii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, Ottawa. vi + 20 pp.

COSEWIC. 2010. COSEWIC assessment and status report on Roell's Brotherella Moss Brotherella roellii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. ix + 23 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm).

COSEWIC. 2011. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Haller's Apple Moss Bartramia halleriana in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi + 23 pp. Online at:  https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/hallers-apple-moss-2011.html

COSEWIC. 2012. COSEWIC status appraisal summary on the Silver Hair Moss Fabronia pusilla in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi pp. Online at:  https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/silver-hair-moss-appraisal-summary-2012.html

COSEWIC. 2014. COSEWIC status appraisal summary on the Columbian Carpet Moss Bryoerythrophyllum columbianum in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xviii pp. (www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/default_e.cfm).

COSEWIC. 2016. COSEWIC status appraisal summary on the Nugget Moss Microbryum vlassovii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xvi pp. Online at:  https://wildlife-species.az.ec.gc.ca/species-risk-registry/virtual_sara/files//cosewic/Nugget%20Moss_Status_Appraisal_Summary_2016_e.pdf

COSEWIC. 2017. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Porsild’s Bryum Haplodontium macrocarpum in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xvi + 74 pp.  Online at:  https://wildlife-species.az.ec.gc.ca/species-risk-registry/virtual_sara/files//cosewic/srPorsildsBryum2017e.pdf

Fedosov, V., A. Fedorova, E. Ignatova, and J. Kučera. 2023. New Taxonomic Arrangement of Dicranella s.l. and Aongstroemia s.l. (Dicranidae, Bryophyta). Plants 12: 1360.

Gallego, M.T., M. J. Cano, R. M. Ros & J. Guerra. 2002. An overview of Syntrichia ruralis complex (Pottiaceae: Musci) in the Mediterranean region and neighboring areas. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 138:209-224.

Gallego, M. T., V. Hugonnot & M. J. Cano. 2018. Taxonomic resurrection of an awnless variety of Syntrichia ruralis and comparison with other European muticous taxa in this genus. J. Bryol. 40(3): 244–250.

Hill, M.O, N.E. Bell, M.A. Bruggeman-Nannenga, & M. Brugues. 2006. An annotated checklist of the mosses of Europe and Macaronesia. Journal of Bryology J. Bryol. (28): 198-267.

 

Hodgetts, N. G., L. Söderström, T. L. Blockeel, S. Caspari, M. S. Ignatov, N. A. Konstantinova, N. Lockhart, B. Papp, C. Schröck, M. Sim-Sim, D. Bell, N. E. Bell, H. H. Blom, M. A. Bruggeman-Nannenga, M. Brugués, J. Enroth, K. I. Flatberg, R. Garilleti, L. Hedenäs, D. T. Holyoak, V. Hugonnot, I. U. Kariyawasam, H. Köckinger, J. Kučera, F. Lara & R. D. Porley. 2020. An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus. J. Bryol. 42(1): 1–116.

Jiménez, J. A., M. J. Cano & J. Guerra. 2022 [2021]. A multilocus phylogeny of the moss genus Didymodon and allied genera (Pottiaceae): Generic delimitations and their implications for systematics. J. Syst. Evol. 60(2): 281-304.

Joya, S. 2023. Personal Communication. Bryologist, consultant, Tappen, B.C.

Kramer, W. A. 2023. The genus Syntrichia Brid. (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) in the Holarctic with special consideration of North America. Nova Hedwigia Beih. 154: 1-234.

McIntosh, T.T. PhD. personal communication (email). Bryologist, consultant, Vancouver, B.C.

Sadler, K.D. and G.E. Bradfield. 2010. Ecological facets of plant species rarity in rock outcrop ecosystems of the Gulf Islands, British Columbia. Botany 88: 429–434.

Spence, J. R., J. C. Brinda, S. M. Buckley & N. J. Trigoboff. 2022. New records of Bryaceae (Bryophyta) for the Flora of North America region, including a major range extension from Europe. Evansia 39(2): 87-96.

Vanderpoorten A. 2004. A simple taxonomic treatment for a complicated evolutionary story: the genus Hygroamblystegium (Hypnales, Amblystegiaceae). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 98:320–327.

Slime Molds

Durand, Ryan. Personal Communication. Ecologist, Project manager, EcoLogic Consulting Ltd., Crescent Valley, B.C.

Ehlers, Tyson. Personal Communication. Ecologist, Biologist, Masse Environmental Consultants. Central Kootenay, B.C.

Janszen, Pamela. Personal Communication. Mycologist, Saturna Island, B.C.

 

Schnittler, 1996. Myxomycete records, Canadian West, Summer 1996. University of Arkansas. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Eumycetozoan Databank. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/zxmhsy accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-15.