Campylopus clavatus(R.Br.) Wilson

WFO wfo-0001178579 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Jaco Grundling
fig. a Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 192785275
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. b Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191520818
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. c Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191532137
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. d Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180751291
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. e Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170654488
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. f Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125500835
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. g Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110268755
Campylopus clavatus, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. h Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93538603

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Where it actually grows measured, from 324 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -1.8 °C 4.4 °C 10.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.0 °C 20.1 °C 25.3 °C
Annual rainfall 657 mm 1,153 mm 2,826 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 87 mm 211 mm 557 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 324 research-grade observations of Campylopus clavatus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 24 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.

  • Campylopus arcuatus R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus arenarius R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus brownii Paris
  • Campylopus cylindrotheca R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus ellipticotheca R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus leptodus Mont.
  • Campylopus montagnei De Not.
  • Campylopus otaramai R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus persimplex Müll.Hal.
  • Campylopus rarus R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus roberti Paris
  • Campylopus rodwayi Broth.
  • Campylopus sulphureoflavus (Müll.Hal.) Paris
  • Campylopus traillii R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus walkeri R.Br.bis
  • Campylopus xanthophyllus Mont.
  • Dicranum clavatum R.Br.
  • Dicranum sulphureo-flavus Müll.Hal.
  • Dicranum sulphureoflavum Müll.Hal.
  • Dicranum xanthophyllum Mont. ex Paris
  • Pilopogon leptodus (Mont.) Broth.
  • Thysanomitrion leptodum (Mont.) Dixon
  • Thysanomitriopsis pilopogon Müll.Hal.
  • Trichostomum leptodum (Mont.) Mitt.

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.