Breutelia pendula(Sm.) Mitt.

WFO wfo-0001155702 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Breutelia pendula, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. a Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-02 / obs. 174734554
Breutelia pendula, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler
fig. b Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112428086
Breutelia pendula, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. c Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85228902
Breutelia pendula, photographed by Penelope Noel Gillette
fig. d Penelope Noel Gillette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29675952
Breutelia pendula, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. e Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 94926599
Breutelia pendula, photographed by georgiasteel
fig. f georgiasteel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105451909
Breutelia pendula, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. g Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156410407
Breutelia pendula, photographed by John Steel
fig. h John Steel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3242445

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Where it actually grows measured, from 84 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -2.3 °C 3.1 °C 9.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.7 °C 18.6 °C 24.1 °C
Annual rainfall 781 mm 1,414 mm 2,295 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 144 mm 270 mm 457 mm

It is found where winters bring light 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 84 research-grade observations of Breutelia pendula 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 21 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.

  • Bartramia bellii R.Br.bis
  • Bartramia buchananii R.Br.bis
  • Bartramia campbelliana Müll.Hal.
  • Bartramia comiramea Müll.Hal.
  • Bartramia comosa Mitt.
  • Bartramia consimilis (Hook.f. & Wilson) Hook.f.
  • Bartramia divaricata Mitt.
  • Bartramia pendula (Sm.) Hook.
  • Bartramia readeriana Colenso
  • Bartramia sieberi Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.
  • Breutelia campbelliana (Müll.Hal.) Watts & Whitel.
  • Breutelia comosa (Mitt.) Mitt.
  • Breutelia consimilis (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.
  • Breutelia divaricata (Mitt.) Mitt.
  • Breutelia fuscoaurea Broth.
  • Breutelia readeriana (Colenso) A.Gepp
  • Breutelia sieberi (Hornsch. ex Müll.Hal.) Mitt.
  • Bryum pendulum (Sm.) Brid.
  • Hypnum consimile Hook.f. & Wilson
  • Mnium pendulum Sm.
  • Philonotis pendula (Sm.) Brid.

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.

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.