Brachythecium reflexum
From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
Brachythecium reflexum:
Taxonomic Info:
Family: Brachytheciaceae
Genus: Brachythecium
Specific Epithet: reflexum
Rank: species
Abundance: Not known to occur
Southeast Alaska: and
Global Distribution:
Southeastern Alaska Distribution: Known from the Chilkat Mountains (Kurtz, 1885), from a young Sitka Spruce forest on raised beach near Bartlett Cove, Glacier Bay National Monument, Worley and Boas 10222, and from Mud Bay, Chilcoot Inlet, near Haines, Worley 12103.
[as B. r. var. pacificum] See Map 144 (The distribution mapped does not include any determinations by the present author.)
Habitat: On the bases of trees, among mosses on forest floors, on decaying wood, and occasionally on rocks.
[as B. r. var. pacificum] Although seldom published it appears that the habitat of this variety is on rocks and tree bases from the forestzone to the subalpine.
Comments: Often with sporophytes. The following variety is common throughout.
