Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis(Kindb.) D.H.Norris & Enroth

Vancouver porotrichum moss

WFO wfo-0001195910 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. a Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-22 / obs. 190912673
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184931266
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. c Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24440
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. d Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190912697
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184931285
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. f Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24314
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114386998
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114386997

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04273759
Filed as
Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis (Kindb.) D.H.Norris & Enroth
Det. by
D. R. Toren 2019-04-01
Collected
J. R. Shevock 2019-03-16
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bestia holzingeri (Renauld & Cardot) Broth.
  • Bestia occidentalis (Kindb.) Grout
  • Bestia vancouveriensis (Kindb.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Heterocladium vancouveriense (Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Hypnum occidentale Sull. & Lesq.
  • Isothecium holzingeri (Renauld & Cardot) Kindb.
  • Isothecium occidentale (Kindb.) R.S.Williams
  • Porotrichum vancouveriense (Kindb.) H.A.Crum
  • Pseudoleskea occidentalis Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskea vancouveriensis (Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskeella occidentalis (Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskeella vancouveriensis (Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskeopsis occidentalis (Kindb.) Grout
  • Thamnium holzingeri Renauld & Cardot
  • Thuidium vancouveriense Kindb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol POVA12. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.