Orthothecium

Accepted species 13 Documented here 2 Family Plagiotheciaceae

Accepted species 13 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
Orthothecium rufescens (Dicks. ex Brid.) Schimp. 16 documented
Orthothecium intricatum (Hartm.) Schimp. 3 documented
Orthothecium acuminatum Bryhn 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium brunnescens Ignatova & Ignatov 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium chryseon (Schwägr.) Schimp. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium hyalopiliferum Redf. & B.H.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium lapponicum (Schimp.) C.Hartm. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium ovicarpum (Dixon) W.R.Buck 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium remotifolium Ignatov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium retroflexum Ignatov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium schlagintweitii (Sendtn. ex Müll.Hal.) Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium sibiricum Ignatov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Orthothecium strictum Lorentz 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.