Echinodiopsis hispida(Hook.f. & Wilson) S.Olsson, Enroth & D.Quandt

WFO wfo-0001040244 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Maureen Howard
fig. a Maureen Howard, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199554560
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. b Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191512243
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. c Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190846468
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. d Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190838128
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174638709
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173458763
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172321098
Echinodiopsis hispida, photographed by Cameron Ryan
fig. h Cameron Ryan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166066536

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Where it actually grows measured, from 357 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.4 °C 4.9 °C 9.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.8 °C 19.7 °C 22.5 °C
Annual rainfall 792 mm 1,295 mm 1,956 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 154 mm 244 mm 380 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 357 research-grade observations of Echinodiopsis hispida 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 9 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.

  • Echinodium arboreum Broth.
  • Echinodium falcatulum Broth. & Paris
  • Echinodium hispidum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Jur.
  • Hypnum aristatum Sull.
  • Hypnum hispidum Hook.f. & Wilson
  • Leskea hispida (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt.
  • Sciaromium arboreum (Broth.) Paris
  • Sciaromium hispidum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Paris
  • Thamnobryum hispidum (Hook.f. & Wilson) M.Stech, Sim-Sim, Tangney & D.Quandt

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.

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.