Bucklandiella microcarpos(Hedw.) Bedn.-Ochyra & Ochyra

racomitrium moss

WFO wfo-0001212369 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-29 / obs. 170993271
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170993705
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170993483
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170994238
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170994271
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. f Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170994186
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. g Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170994203
Bucklandiella microcarpos, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. h Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170994165

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04115404
Filed as
Racomitrium microcarpon var. microcarpon
Det. by
J. C. Brinda 2014-11-11
Collected
J. C. Brinda 2014-07-05
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.

Also published as 36 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.

  • Bryum macrocarpum With.
  • Bryum microcarpon (Hedw.) Funck
  • Grimmia ericoides Bach.Pyl. ex Brid.
  • Grimmia microcarpos (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.
  • Grimmia ramulosa (Lindb.) Lindb.
  • Grimmia strigosa Brid.
  • Racomitrium canadense (Michx.) Brid.
  • Racomitrium divergens Stirt.
  • Racomitrium fasciculare f. compactum (Röll) Podp.
  • Racomitrium heterostichum f. muticum Corb.
  • Racomitrium heterostichum subsp. microcarpon (Hedw.) Loeske
  • Racomitrium heterostichum subsp. ramulosum (Lindb.) Dixon
  • Racomitrium heterostichum var. microcarpon (Hedw.) Boulay
  • Racomitrium heterostichum var. ramulosum (Lindb.) Corb.
  • Racomitrium microcarpon (Hedw.) Brid.
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. afoninae Frisvoll
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. fastigiatum Loeske
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. microcarpon
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. muticum (Corb.) Podp.
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. nigricans H.Winter
  • Racomitrium microcarpon f. repens L.I.Savicz
  • Racomitrium microcarpon var. brevicellulosum (Roiv.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Racomitrium microcarpon var. compactum Röll
  • Racomitrium microcarpon var. ericoides Röll

and 12 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol RAMI8. public domain. 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.