Blindia acuta(Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.

acute blindia moss

WFO wfo-0001154601 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Blindia acuta, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201399785
Blindia acuta, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201399327
Blindia acuta, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197331345
Blindia acuta, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158596225
Blindia acuta, photographed by Ellyne Geurts
fig. e Ellyne Geurts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135665830
Blindia acuta, photographed by Gergely Nigg
fig. f Gergely Nigg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97980245
Blindia acuta, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 95886401
Blindia acuta, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 74417342

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03684041
Filed as
Blindia acuta (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.
Det. by
J. R. Shevock; D. R. Toren 2018-04-01
Collected
J. R. Shevock 2018-03-27
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 165 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.9 °C -1.2 °C 3.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.9 °C 19.7 °C 24.8 °C
Annual rainfall 938 mm 1,832 mm 3,838 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 117 mm 264 mm 471 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 165 research-grade observations of Blindia acuta that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 49 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Blindia acuta f. aquatica Chał.
  • Blindia acuta f. breviseta (Bruch & Schimp.) Podp. ex Korcz.
  • Blindia acuta f. dichelymoides (Kindb.) Mönk.
  • Blindia acuta f. irrorata (Pfeff.) Mönk.
  • Blindia acuta f. longiseta Korcz.
  • Blindia acuta f. purpureoviridis Röll
  • Blindia acuta subsp. laticostata Pilous
  • Blindia acuta subsp. trichodes (Braithw.) J.J.Amann
  • Blindia acuta var. arenacea Molendo
  • Blindia acuta var. brevifolia Korcz.
  • Blindia acuta var. breviseta Bruch & Schimp.
  • Blindia acuta var. dichelymoides Kindb.
  • Blindia acuta var. falcata Boulay
  • Blindia acuta var. flexipes Renauld & Cardot
  • Blindia acuta var. irrorata Pfeff.
  • Blindia acuta var. madeirensis (Geh.) Perss.
  • Blindia acuta var. rupestris (Hedw.) Korcz.
  • Blindia acuta var. rupincola (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Rabenh.
  • Blindia acuta var. seligeri (Brid.) Limpr.
  • Blindia acuta var. stenocarpa Röll
  • Blindia acuta var. trichodes Braithw.
  • Blindia arenacea (Molendo) Lorentz
  • Blindia flexipes (Renauld & Cardot) Kindb.
  • Blindia himalayana Dixon & Badhw.

and 25 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.