Chenia leptophylla(Müll.Hal.) R.H.Zander

tortula moss

WFO wfo-0001198733 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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.

Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. a Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 176501572
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176153222
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176153257
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. d Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176501580
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. e Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176501623
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Jessica Paull
fig. f Jessica Paull, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181022356
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Jessica Paull
fig. g Jessica Paull, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181022345
Chenia leptophylla, photographed by Jessica Paull
fig. h Jessica Paull, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181022313

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.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Chenia rhizophylla (Sakurai) R.H.Zander
  • Funaria rhizophylla (Sakurai) Sakurai
  • Leptophascum leptophyllum (Müll.Hal.) J.Guerra & M.J.Cano
  • Phascum leptophyllum Müll.Hal.
  • Physcomitrium rhizophyllum Sakurai
  • Pottia denticulata Dixon & P.de la Varde
  • Pottia neocaledonica Thér.
  • Pottia splachnobryoides Müll.Hal.
  • Pottia watsonii R.S.Chopra
  • Tortula evanescens Broth.
  • Tortula rhizophylla (Sakurai) Z.Iwats. & K.Saito
  • Tortula vectensis E.F.Warb. & Crundw.

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.