Syntrichia

Accepted species 101 Documented here 13 Family Pottiaceae

Accepted species 101 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
Syntrichia ruralis (Hedw.) F.Weber & D.Mohr 878 documented
Syntrichia papillosa (Wilson ex Spruce) Spruce 136 documented
Syntrichia montana Nees 118 documented
Syntrichia latifolia (Bruch ex Hartm.) Huebener 50 documented
Syntrichia laevipila Brid. 47 documented
Syntrichia princeps (De Not.) Mitt. 27 documented
Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. 26 documented
Syntrichia virescens (De Not.) Ochyra 26 documented
Syntrichia calcicola J.J.Amann 10 documented
Syntrichia antarctica (Hampe) R.H.Zander 9 documented
Syntrichia pagorum (Milde) J.J.Amann 7 documented
Syntrichia fragilis (Taylor) Ochyra 3 documented
Syntrichia norvegica F.Weber 3 documented
Syntrichia mnioides (Schwägr.) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 2 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia laeviuscula (Kindb.) W.A.Kramer 1 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia abruptinervis (Dixon) R.H.Zander ex Ochyra, Saługa & Ronikier 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia ammonsiana (H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia amphidiacea (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia anderssonii (Ångstr.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia andicola (Mont.) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia angustifolia (Herzog) M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia austroafricana (W.A.Kramer) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia austroleucophaea (Besch.) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia bartramii (Steere) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia berthoana (Thér.) M.T.Gallego & M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia bidentata (X.L.Bai) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia bogotensis (Hampe) Mitt. ex R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia boliviana M.T.Gallego & M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia brachychaete (Dusén) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia brachyclada (Cardot) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia brasiliensis (Casado ex D.P.Costa) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia breviseta (Mont.) M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia brevisetacea (Hampe ex F.Muell.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia buchtienii (Herzog) M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia calobolax (Müll.Hal.) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia calymperes (Müll.Hal.) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia campestris (Dusén) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia cascadensis W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia cavallii (G.Negri) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia cavifolia (Mitt.) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia chisosa (Magill, Delgad. & L.R.Stark) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia christophei Ochyra & R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia chubutensis (Dusén) W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia clavipes (Spruce) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia coloradensis W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia costesii (Thér.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia epilosa (Broth. ex Dusén) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia erythrodonta (Taylor) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia filaris (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia fontana (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia frigorideserticola Ochyra, Saługa & Ronikier 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia geheebiaeopsis (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia gemmascens (P.C.Chen) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia glacialis (Kunze ex Müll.Hal.) Spruce 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia handelii (Schiffn.) Bachurina 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia hermannii W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia hosseusii W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia kingii (H.Rob.) M.T.Gallego & M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia lamellaris M.T.Gallego, M.J.Cano & Larraín 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia leptotricha (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia leucostega (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia limensis (R.S.Williams) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia lindigii (Hampe) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia lithophila (Dusén) Ochyra & R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia magellanica (Mont.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia magilliana L.E.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia matudiana (H.A.Crum) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia muricata M.T.Gallego & M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia napoana (De Not.) M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia novomexicana W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia obtusissima (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia ovata W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia perichaetialis Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia phaea (Hook.f. & Wilson) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia polylepidis (Herzog) M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia pseudohandelii (J.Froehl.) S.Agnew & Vondr. 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia pseudorobusta (Dusén) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia pugionata (Müll.Hal.) W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia quitoensis (Taylor) Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia ramosissima (Thér.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia rigescens (Broth. & Geh.) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia robusta (Hook. & Grev.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia rubella (Hook.f. & Wilson) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia rubra (Mitt.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia saxicola (Cardot) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia scabrella (Dusén) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia scabrinervis (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia schnyderi (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia serrata (Dixon) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia serripungens (Lorentz & Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia serrulata (Hook. & Grev.) M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia sinensis (Müll.Hal.) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia socialis (Dusén) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia splendida M.T.Gallego & M.J.Cano 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia squarripila (Thér.) Herzog ex Brinda, Jáuregui-Lazo & Mishler 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia subaristata (Bruch & Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia subintermedia (Renauld & Cardot) W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia submontana (Broth.) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia subpapillosa (Cardot & Broth.) Matteri 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia sucrosa Kellman 0 below the evidence gate
Syntrichia viridula (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 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.