Gymnostomum

Accepted species 19 Documented here 2 Family Pottiaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Gymnostomum aeruginosum Sm. 6 documented
Gymnostomum viridulum Brid. 3 documented
Gymnostomum bahiense Salzm. ex Duby 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum bescherellei Broth. & Geh. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum bewsii Sim ex Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum calcareum Nees & Hornsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum carthusianum (Vill. ex Brid.) P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum chenii K.Saito 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum foliosum Röhl. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum hymenostylioides (Broth. & Dixon) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum laxirete (Broth.) P.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum lessonii Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum lingulatum Rehmann ex Sim 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum ludovicae Broth. & Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum madagascariense O'Shea 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum mosis (Lorentz) Jur. & Milde 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum simplicissimum (Lour. ex P.Beauv.) Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum splachnobryoides Bizot 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnostomum unguiculatum H.Philib. 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.