Calliergonella lindbergii(Mitt.) Hedenäs

Lindberg's hypnum moss

WFO wfo-0001197129 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-19 / obs. 176532075
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174648872
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174058696
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by John Kees
fig. d John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174069600
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173883696
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by George Greiff
fig. f George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158601173
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. g Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154913455
Calliergonella lindbergii, photographed by Susan Marley
fig. h Susan Marley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95096672

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02899533
Filed as
Calliergonella lindbergii (Mitt.) Hedenäs
Det. by
W. R. Buck 2017-05-01
Collected
W. R. Buck 2017-03-24
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 436 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.8 °C -7.8 °C 1.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.4 °C 25.8 °C 31.4 °C
Annual rainfall 638 mm 1,125 mm 1,547 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 96 mm 222 mm 320 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 436 research-grade observations of Calliergonella lindbergii 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 91 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.

  • Breidleria arcuata Loeske
  • Breidleria arcuata f. brunnescens (Podp.) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata f. condensata (Berggr.) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata f. immersa (J.J.Amann) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata f. lignicola (Holler ex Pfeff.) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata f. melanotia (J.J.Amann) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata f. uncinata (Podp.) Podp.
  • Breidleria arcuata var. americana (Renauld & Cardot) Schornh.
  • Breidleria arcuata var. demissa (Schimp.) Riehm.
  • Breidleria arcuata var. elata (Schimp.) Riehm.
  • Breidleria arcuata var. nivalis (Podp.) Podp.
  • Breidleria lindbergii (Mitt.) W.Schultze-Motel
  • Breidleria patientiae Wijk & Margad.
  • Drepanium arcuatum C.E.O.Jensen
  • Drepanium arcuatum f. melanotium (J.J.Amann) J.J.Amann
  • Drepanium arcuatum var. demissum (Schimp.) Hillier
  • Drepanium arcuatum var. elatum (Schimp.) Hillier
  • Drepanium arcuatum var. immersum J.J.Amann
  • Drepanium arcuatum var. lignicola (Holler ex Pfeff.) J.J.Amann
  • Drepanium arcuatum var. melanotium J.J.Amann
  • Drepanium lignicola (Holler ex Pfeff.) G.Roth ex Wijk, Margad. & Florsch.
  • Drepanium lindbergii (Mitt.) G.Roth
  • Drepanium lindbergii var. elatum (Schimp.) G.Roth
  • Drepanium lindbergii var. fluitans (De Not.) G.Roth

and 67 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 HYLI70. 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.