Cinclidotus fontinaloides

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cinclidotus fontinaloides, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps — fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182828353

Cinclidotus fontinaloides, photographed by Jonathan Hughes — fig. d Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119016427

Cinclidotus fontinaloides, photographed by carnifex — fig. f carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27784878

Cinclidotus fontinaloides, photographed by Helen Waterman — fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172463690

Cinclidotus fontinaloides, photographed by Young Jun Lee — fig. h Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180084061

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Where it actually grows measured, from 81 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-4.8 °C	0.1 °C	2.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	17.2 °C	20.9 °C	25.7 °C
Annual rainfall	668 mm	1,103 mm	1,675 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	134 mm	225 mm	321 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 81 research-grade observations of Cinclidotus fontinaloides 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 22 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.

Cinclidotus fontinaloides f. denticulatus Latzel
Cinclidotus fontinaloides f. flagellascens (Latzel) Podp.
Cinclidotus fontinaloides f. robustus Baumgartner
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. aurosicus Thér.
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. baumgartneri E.Bauer
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. dixonii Thér.
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. flagellascens Latzel
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. incrassatus (Turner) Béhéré
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. lorentzianus Molendo
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. madeirensis Cardot
Cinclidotus fontinaloides var. pseudoaquaticus Ingham
Cinclidotus minor Lindb.
Fontinalis alpina Dicks.
Fontinalis antipyretica var. erecta (Vill.) DC.
Fontinalis erecta Vill.
Guembelia fontinaloides (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.
Racomitrium fontinaloides (Hedw.) Brid.
Sekra minor Lindb.
Trematodon fontinaloides (Hedw.) Röhl.
Trichostomum fontinaloides Hedw.
Trichostomum fontinaloides var. incrassatum Turner
Trichostomum fontinaloides var. subalpinum Sm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.