| Literature | Koch 1950a; Lesquereux 1868; Spjut 1971. As Bryum bigelovii Lesquereux and James 1884; Shaw 1982; Sullivant 1856. |
| Illustrations | Ignatov and Ignatova 2003; Lawton 1971, Shaw 1982. |
| Notes | This species for California is based on the type of Bryum bigelovii Sullivant (1856). |
| Bioregions | SN. |
| Vouchers | Reported from near Sonora (Tuolumne County) and mapped for the Sierra Nevada in Shaw (1982). However, we have not located a California specimen of this species during our herbarium search in California herbaria. |
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