Dichodontium pellucidum(Hedw.) Schimp.

dichodontium moss

WFO wfo-0001158364 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204284400
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. b Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198906674
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. c Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197680414
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195027450
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196105718
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. f Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 93775922
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. g Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69917970
Dichodontium pellucidum, photographed by George Greiff
fig. h George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67295794

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02816948
Filed as
Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedw.) Schimp.
Det. by
D. R. Toren 2016-07-01
Collected
J. R. Shevock 2016-07-16
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 267 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.8 °C -0.2 °C 4.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.0 °C 20.1 °C 24.6 °C
Annual rainfall 831 mm 1,774 mm 3,966 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 120 mm 250 mm 382 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 267 research-grade observations of Dichodontium pellucidum 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 54 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.

  • Aongstroemia pellucida (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.
  • Aongstroemia pellucida var. fagimontana (Brid.) Müll.Hal.
  • Barbula tamakii Broth.
  • Bryum pellucidum (Hedw.) Jolycl.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. brevifolium (J.E.Zetterst.) Podp.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. compactum (Schimp. ex Dixon) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. erectum (Husn.) Podp.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. fagimontanum (Brid.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. gemmiparum Correns
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. laeve (Culm.) Podp.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. laxum Röll
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. mildei (Limpr.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. novercae Podp.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. propaguliferum (Correns ex Kern) Podp.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum f. strictum (Braithw.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Dichodontium pellucidum subsp. fagimontanum (Brid.) Kindb.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum subsp. mesophyllum Warnst.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum subsp. microphyllum Warnst.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. alpinum Kern ex Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. americanum Lesq.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. angustifolium Warnst.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. brevifolium J.E.Zetterst.
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. compactum Schimp. ex Dixon
  • Dichodontium pellucidum var. erectum Husn.

and 30 more.

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.