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Wijkia carlottae

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ15578237 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wijkia carlottae, or Carlott's wijkia moss, is a species of moss of the family Pylaisiadelphaceae and genus Wijkia. It is endemic to the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada. It occurs in a number of different habitats, but only 10 occurrences are known. It is possibly threatened by logging and it currently classified as vulnerable by NatureServe.

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“Wijkia carlottae” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wijkia, carlottae and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wijkia carlottae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.