Pogonatum

Accepted species 57 Documented here 8 Family Polytrichaceae

Accepted species 57 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
Pogonatum urnigerum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. 164 documented
Pogonatum aloides (Hedw.) P.Beauv. 161 documented
Pogonatum subulatum (Menzies ex Brid.) Brid. 53 documented
Pogonatum contortum (Menzies ex Brid.) Lesq. 51 documented
Pogonatum pensilvanicum (Bartram ex Hedw.) Paris 49 documented
Pogonatum brachyphyllum (Michx.) P.Beauv. 5 documented
Pogonatum tahitense Besch. 4 documented
Pogonatum nanum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. 3 documented
Pogonatum capense (Hampe) A.Jaeger 2 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum japonicum Sull. & Lesq. 2 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum inflexum (Lindb.) Sande Lac. 1 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum tortile (Sw.) Brid. 1 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum belangeri (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum campylocarpum (Müll.Hal.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum camusii (Thér.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum cirratum (Sw.) Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum comosum (Müll.Hal.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum congolense Cardot 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum convolutum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum dentatum (Menzies ex Brid.) Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum fastigiatum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum geheebii Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum gracilifolium Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum iwatsukii Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum jamesonii (Taylor) B.H.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum marginatum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum microphyllum (Dozy & Molk.) Dozy & Molk. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum microstomum (R.Br. ex Schwägr.) Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum minus W.X.Xu & R.L.Xiong 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum misimense (E.B.Bartram) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum neesii (Müll.Hal.) Dozy 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum neglectum (Hampe) A.Jaeger 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum neocaledonicum Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum nipponicum Nog. & Osada 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum norrisii Hyvönen 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum nudiusculum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum otaruense Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum patulum (Harv.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum pergranulatum P.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum perichaetiale (Mont.) A.Jaeger 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum peruvianum Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum petelotii (Thér. & R.Henry) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum philippinense (Broth.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum piliferum (Dozy & Molk.) Touw 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum procerum (Lindb.) Schimp. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum proliferum (Griff.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum rufisetum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum rutteri (Thér. & Dixon) Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum semipellucidum (Hampe) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum shevockii N.E.Bell & Hyvönen 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum sinense (Broth.) Hyvönen & P.C.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum spinulosum Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum subfuscatum Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum subtortile (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum tubulosum Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum usambaricum (Broth.) Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Pogonatum volvatum (Müll.Hal.) Paris 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.