Atrichum

Accepted species 18 Documented here 7 Family Polytrichaceae

Accepted species 18 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. 1,048 documented
Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp. 254 documented
Atrichum androgynum (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger 82 documented
Atrichum altecristatum (Renauld & Cardot) Smyth & L.C.R.Smyth 52 documented
Atrichum selwynii Austin 30 documented
Atrichum crispum (James) Sull. 26 documented
Atrichum crispulum Schimp. ex Besch. 15 documented
Atrichum oerstedianum (Müll.Hal.) Mitt. 2 below the evidence gate
Atrichum tenellum (Röhl.) Bruch & Schimp. 1 below the evidence gate
Atrichum cylindricum (Willd. ex F.Weber) G.L.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum flavisetum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum laoshanense Y.J.Yi & S.He 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum longifolium Cardot & Dixon ex Gangulee 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum muelleri Schimp. ex Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum polycarpum (Müll.Hal.) Schimp. ex Spruce 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum rhystophyllum (Müll.Hal.) Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum subserratum (Harv. & Hook.f.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Atrichum yakushimense (Horik.) Mizush. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.