Tortella

Accepted species 51 Documented here 7 Family Pottiaceae

Accepted species 51 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
Tortella flavovirens (Bruch) Broth. 49 documented
Tortella inflexa (Bruch) Broth. 20 documented
Tortella inclinata (R.Hedw.) Limpr. 19 documented
Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn. 18 documented
Tortella xanthocarpa (Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.) Broth. 14 documented
Tortella nitida (Lindb.) Broth. 7 documented
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr. 6 documented
Tortella tortuosa (Schrad. ex Hedw.) Limpr. 1 below the evidence gate
Tortella alpicola Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella angustifolia (Jur.) Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella aprica (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella arctica (Arnell) Crundw. & Nyholm 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella bambergeri (Schimp.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella bryotropica R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella commutata Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella contortifolia (Mitt.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella cryptocarpa (G.Roth) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella cuspidatissima (Cardot & Thér.) O.Werner, Köckinger & Ros 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella cyrtobasis Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella dakinii J.H.Willis 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella densa (Lorentz & Molendo) Crundw. & Nyholm 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella dolomitica Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella eckendorffii (P.de la Varde) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella fasciculata (Culm.) Culm. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella fleischeri (E.Bauer) J.J.Amann 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella fragmenta Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella germainii (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella goniospora (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella hosseusii Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella involutifolia Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella jugicola (Duby) Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella knightii (Mitt.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella limbata (Schiffn.) Geh. & Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella linearis (Sw.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella mediterranea Köckinger, Lüth, O.Werner & Ros 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella mooreae Sainsbury 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella perrufula (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella pilcomayica Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella pseudocespitosa (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella pseudofragilis (Thér.) Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella rigens Alberts. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella robusta (Pfeff.) Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella simplex H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella smithii C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella somaliae (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella spitsbergensis (Bizot & Thér.) O.Werner, Köckinger & Ros 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella splendida Köckinger & Hedenäs 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella subflavovirens Broth. & Watts 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella torquescens (Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella vernicosa (Renauld & Cardot) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortella walkeri (Broth.) 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.