Pelekium

Accepted species 33 Documented here 1 Family Thuidiaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Pelekium versicolor (Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.) Touw 15 documented
Pelekium atlanticum (Hedenäs) Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium bifarium (Bosch & Sande Lac.) M.Fleisch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium bonianum (Besch.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium campanulatum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium chenagonii (Müll.Hal. ex Renauld & Cardot) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium ciliatum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium contortulum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium erosifolium (S.Y.Zeng) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium fuscatum (Besch.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium gratum (P.Beauv.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium intricatum (A.Jaeger) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium investe (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium involvens (Hedw.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium leptocladum (Taylor) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium microphyllum (Schwägr.) T.J.Kop. & Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium minusculum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium minutulum (Hedw.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium muricatulum (Hampe) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium pseudoinvolvens (Müll.Hal.) Phephu 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium pygmaeum (Schimp.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium ramosissimum (Dixon & E.B.Bartram) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium ramusculosum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium scabrosulum (Mitt.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium schistocalyx (Müll.Hal.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium sharpii (H.A.Crum) G.M.Suárez & Schiavone 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium siphotheca (Müll.Hal.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium subpinnatum (Broth.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium synoicum (Touw) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium thomeanum (Broth.) Phephu 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium varians (Welw. & Duby) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium velatum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pelekium watanabei (Touw) Touw 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.