Tortula

Accepted species 106 Documented here 12 Family Pottiaceae

Accepted species 106 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
Tortula muralis Hedw. 2,064 documented
Tortula truncata (Hedw.) Mitt. 140 documented
Tortula acaulon (With.) R.H.Zander 50 documented
Tortula protobryoides R.H.Zander 40 documented
Tortula subulata Hedw. 37 documented
Tortula bolanderi (Lesq.) M.Howe 33 documented
Tortula atrovirens (Turner ex Sm.) Lindb. 22 documented
Tortula marginata (Bruch & Schimp.) Spruce 18 documented
Tortula caucasica Lindb. 14 documented
Tortula lindbergii Kindb. ex Broth. 6 documented
Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu 4 documented
Tortula solmsii (Schimp.) Limpr. 3 documented
Tortula abyssinica De Not. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula aculeonervis (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula afanassievii Laz. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula altipes (Broth.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula amplexa (Lesq.) Steere 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula ampliretis Crundw. & D.G.Long 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula areolata (C.Knight) Fife 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula arequipensis M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula bauriana Warnst. ex Baur 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula bogosica (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula brandisii (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula brevipes (Lesq.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula brevissima Schiffn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula buyssonii (H.Philib.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula calcarea Fior.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula californica E.B.Bartram 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula canescens Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula capillaris (P.C.Chen) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula cardotii Thér. & Naveau 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula cernua (Huebener) Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula chubutensis Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula chungtienia R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula crenata Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula cuneifolia (Dicks.) Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula cuspidatissima (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula deciduidentata (Sharp & Z.Iwats.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula demawendica Schiffn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula dendyi D.G.Long & Brinda 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula diaguita (R.H.Zander & Mahú) M.J.Cano & M.T.Gallego 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula diaphana (Brid.) Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula edentula Ignatova & Ignatov 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula entosthodontacea (Cardot & Dixon) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula felipponei Thér. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula flexuosa Brid. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula freibergii Dixon & Loeske 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula galilaea (Herrnst. & Heyn) Ezer & R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula grandiretis Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula guepinii (Bruch & Schimp.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula hoppeana (Schultz) Ochyra 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula inermis (Brid.) Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula israelis Bizot & F.Bilewsky 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula kabir-khanii (Broth.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula kneuckeri Broth. & Geh. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula laureri (Schultz) Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula lazarenkoi L.I.Savicz 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula leptotheca (Broth.) P.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula leucochlora (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula leucostoma (R.Br.) Hook. & Grev. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula lingulata Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula litorea Cardot & Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula madagassa Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula minor (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula minutirosula (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula mucronifera W.Frey, Kürschner & Ros 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula mucronifolia Schwägr. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula murciana Ros & O. Werner 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula neoeckeliae C.Feng & J.Kou 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula nevadensis (Cardot & Thér.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula obscuriretis Thér. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula pallida (Lindb.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula paulsenii Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula planicosta Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula planifolia X.J.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula platyphylla Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula plinthobia (Sull. & Lesq.) Austin 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula podocarpi (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula porteri (James) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula raucopapillosa (X.J.Li) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula recurvata Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula revolutifolia Laz. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula revolvens (Schimp.) G.Roth 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula rhizogemmascens (X.L.Bai, Ignatov & D.M.Ren) W.A.Kramer 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula sabinae C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula sayanensis Fedosov & Ignatova 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula schimperi M.J.Cano, O.Werner & J.Guerra 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula splachnoides (Hornsch.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula sublimbata (Mitt.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula subobtusifolia Broth. ex Ihsiba 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula subtranscaspica J.Froehl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula systylia (Schimp.) Lindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula thianschanica Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula thomsonii (Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula tonkinensis (Besch.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula trachyphylla Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula transcaspica Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula ucrainica (Laz.) R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula vahliana (Schultz) Mont. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula viridifolia (Mitt.) Blockeel & A.J.E.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula viridipila Dixon & Sainsbury 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula vlassovii (Laz.) Ros & Herrnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula websteri H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula wilczekii Meyl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula willisiana R.H.Zander 0 below the evidence gate
Tortula wilsonii (Hook.) 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.