Cryphaea glomerataSchimp. ex Sull.

cryphaea moss

WFO wfo-0001181095 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Tom Kennedy
fig. a Tom Kennedy, CC BY 4.0 / 2011-01-06 / obs. 176780079
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. b Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169178485
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. c Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167615692
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by John Abrams
fig. d John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62056161
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. e Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167615713
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. f Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169178479
Cryphaea glomerata, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. g Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169178471

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 7 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.

  • Cryphaea glomerata var. glomerata
  • Cryphaea glomerata var. pendula (Lesq. & James) Rau & Herv.
  • Cryphaea pendula Lesq. & James
  • Cryphaea pendula var. erythrodontia Kindb.
  • Pilotrichum glomeratum (Schimp. ex Sull.) Trevis.
  • Pilotrichum heteromallum var. filiforme Müll.Hal.
  • Pilotrichum heteromallum var. glomeratum Müll.Hal. ex Paris

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.