Orthotrichum

Accepted species 111 Documented here 15 Family Orthotrichaceae

Accepted species 111 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
Orthotrichum anomalum R.Br.bis 545 documented
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw. 545 documented
Orthotrichum diaphanum Schrad. ex Brid. 478 documented
Orthotrichum pulchellum Brunt. 193 documented
Orthotrichum stellatum Brid. 72 documented
Orthotrichum stramineum Hornsch. ex Brid. 72 documented
Orthotrichum tenellum Bruch ex Brid. 23 documented
Orthotrichum consimile Mitt. 16 documented
Orthotrichum cupulatum Hoffm. ex Brid. 11 documented
Orthotrichum pumilum Sw. 10 documented
Orthotrichum patens Bruch ex Brid. 9 documented
Orthotrichum macrocephalum F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 7 documented
Orthotrichum shevockii Lewinsky & D.H.Norris 6 documented
Orthotrichum pusillum Mitt. 4 documented
Orthotrichum pallens Bruch ex Brid. 3 documented
Orthotrichum consobrinum Cardot 2 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum acutifolium R.Br.bis 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum aequatoreum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum afrofastigiatum Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum alpestre Hornsch. ex Bruch & Schimp. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum angustifolium Hook.f. & Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum anodon F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum assimile Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum atratum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum aucklandicum (Vitt) Goffinet 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum bartramii R.S.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum bistratosum (Schiffn.) J.Guerra 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum callistomum Fisch.-Oost. ex Bruch & Schimp. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum calvum Hook.f. & Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum camanchacanum Plášek, Sawicki & F.Osorio 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum cambrense Bosanquet & F.Lara 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum canum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum capense O'Shea 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum casasianum F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum columbicum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum comosum F.Lara, R.Medina & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum confusum R.Medina, F.Lara & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum crassifolium Hook.f. & Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum crenulatum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum cucullatum F.Lara, R.Medina & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum cylindrocarpum Lesq. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum dagestanicum Fedosov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum dentatum Kiebacher & Lüth 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum denticulatum Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum erpodiaceum Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum erubescens Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum euryphyllum Venturi 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum flowersii Vitt 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum franciscanum F.Lara, R.Medina & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum freyanum Goffinet, W.R.Buck & M.A.Wall 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum gigantosporum Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum hallii Sull. & Lesq. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum handiense F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum heteromallum Schwägr. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum hispanicum F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum hooglandii E.B.Bartram 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum hybridum H.Philib. ex Podp. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum hyperboreum Fedosov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum ibukiense Toyama 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum inclinatum Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum jetteae B.H.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum karoo F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum laxum Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum leblebicii Erdağ, Kürschner & Parolly 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum leikipiae Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum leiothecium Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum lescurii Austin 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum letourneuxii Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum liliputanum Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum malacothecium Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum mazimpakanum Garilleti & F.Lara 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum meyenianum Hampe 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum microcarpum De Not. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum moravicum Plášek & Sawicki 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum norrisii F.Lara, R.Medina & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum obtusatum R.Br.bis 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum ohioense Sull. & Lesq. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum pamiricum Plášek & Sawicki 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum parvulum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum pellucidum Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum penicillatum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum perexiguum Dusén ex Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum persimile F.Lara, R.Medina & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum philibertii Venturi 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum pilosissimum R.Medina, F.Lara & Garilleti 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum pungens Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum recurvifolium Hook. & Grev. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum revolutum Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum rivulare Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum robustum R.Br.bis 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum rogeri Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum scanicum Grönvall 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum schimperi Hammar 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum schofieldii (B.C.Tan & Y.Jia) B.H.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum sharpii H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum sibiricum (Grönvall ex Lindb. & Arnell) Warnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum spiculatum F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum sprucei Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum subexsertum Schimp. ex Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum subpumilum E.B.Bartram ex Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum tortile Bruch 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum trachymitrium Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum transvaaliense Rehmann ex Sim 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum tristriatum Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum underwoodii F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum undulatifolium Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum urnaceum Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum urnigerum Myrin 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum vermiferum Lewinsky 0 below the evidence gate
Orthotrichum vittii F.Lara, Garilleti & Mazimpaka 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.