Pygmy pocket moss (Fissidens exilis) COSEWIC assessment and status report: Appendix 1

Appendix 1

“Spec. Loc.” refers to the institution(s) that house each specimen (Canadian Museum of Nature (CANM), McGill University (MTMG), Devonian Botanic Garden (DBG)). Where accession numbers are available, they are also provided in this column.  Under ‘Sporos,’ the presence or absence of fruiting bodies is noted.

Known Canadian collections of Fissidens exilis
Spec. Loc. Sporos Locality / Habitat Collector / Collecting # / Date Determined / Examined by

CANM

290756

Present

Canada, Ontario, Essex County, Anderdon Township, “Canard River Kentucky Coffee Tree Woods” 

Floodplain woods, on lumps of clay

M.J. Oldham

B-255

March 24, 1984

R.R. Ireland

1985

CANM

275055

Present

Canada, Ontario, Essex County, Colchester South Township

Mature deciduous woods, oak-dominated

M.J. Oldham

B-35

March 26, 1981

R.R. Ireland

1982

DBG Absent

Canada, Ontario, Kent County, Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Sinclair’s Bush Conservation Area (Lower Thames Conservation Authority)

Maple / Beech forest, on bare mud (no debris or herb cover).

J.C. Doubt

9348

August 16, 2002

J.C. Doubt

2003

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Present

Canada, Ontario, Haldimand-Norfolk County, Walsingham Township,  Deer Creek Conservation Area (Long Point Region Conservation Authority) south of Langton, Ontario

Veg type FOM3-1

OMNR

10-17-5350-47250

June 22, 1995

L.M. Ley
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Present

Canada, Ontario, Waterloo County, North Dumfries Township, Sudden Tract (Region of Waterloo), south-west of Cambridge, Ontario

Veg type ‘FOD6-5’ (Deciduous Forest)

OMNR

10-17-5500-47900

September 23, 1995

L.M. Ley

CANM

291533

Present Canada, Quebec, Gatineau County, Gatineau Park

J.Ranger

June 1982

R.R. Ireland 1985

MTMG?

(as cited by Molnar 1975)

No record of sample at MTMG

Canada, Quebec, west end of the Island of Montréal, Macdonald campus of McGill University, Morgan Arboretum

In a planted spruce-tamarack association on clay soil

L. Molnar

Fall 1973

R.R. Ireland

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