Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 31 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -10.2 °C | -3.6 °C | 0.9 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.4 °C | 21.8 °C | 27.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 570 mm | 1,080 mm | 1,860 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 80 mm | 192 mm | 409 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 31 research-grade observations of Coscinodon cribrosus 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 25 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.
- Apocarpum commune P.Beauv.
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. brevipilus (M.Fleisch. & Warnst.) Podp.
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. epilosus Boulay
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. incanus Boulay
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. laevidens Tosco
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. propagulifer C.E.O.Jensen
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. submuticus Latzel
- Coscinodon cribrosus f. subsulcatus Limpr.
- Coscinodon cribrosus subsp. mardorfii (Loeske & H.Winter) J.J.Amann
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. brevipilus M.Fleisch. & Warnst.
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. brevipilus J.J.Amann
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. elongatus G.Roth
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. epilosus Cardot ex Loeske
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. mardorfii (Loeske & H.Winter) Jäggli
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. plesivecensis Pilous
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. propagulifer (C.E.O.Jensen) J.J.Amann
- Coscinodon cribrosus var. subperforatus (H.Philib.) Fergusson
- Coscinodon persoonii Hampe
- Coscinodon pulvinatus Spreng.
- Coscinodon pulvinatus var. subperforatus H.Philib.
- Grimmia caespiticia var. bornmuellerorum Schiffn.
- Grimmia cribrosa Hedw.
- Grimmia mardorfii Loeske & H.Winter
- Grimmia sinensianodon Müll.Hal.
and 1 more.
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.
- 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.