Claopodium whippleanum(Sull.) Renauld & Cardot

Whipple's claopodium moss

WFO wfo-0001180634 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-20 / obs. 189526005
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. b Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46124657
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. c Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24300
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189526027
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. e Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24471
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189526052
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 128073462
Claopodium whippleanum, photographed by Randal
fig. h Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 128073463

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 14 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.

  • Claopodium algarvicum (Schimp.) G.Roth
  • Claopodium hawaiense R.S.Williams
  • Claopodium leuconeuron (Sull. & Lesq.) Renauld & Cardot
  • Claopodium whippleanum f. cavernicola (Luisier) Luisier
  • Claopodium whippleanum var. cavernicola Luisier
  • Claopodium whippleanum var. leuconeuron (Sull. & Lesq.) Grout
  • Hypnum leuconeuron Sull. & Lesq.
  • Hypnum whippleanum Sull.
  • Leskea algarvica Schimp.
  • Pseudoleskea algarvica (Schimp.) Kindb.
  • Thuidium algarvicum (Schimp.) Kindb.
  • Thuidium leskeoides Kindb.
  • Thuidium leuconeuron (Sull. & Lesq.) Lesq.
  • Thuidium whippleanum (Sull.) A.Jaeger

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.