Epipterygium tozeri(Grev.) Lindb.

Tozer's epipterygium moss

WFO wfo-0001166486 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 176155792
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24308
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33666931
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176155714
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by George Greiff
fig. e George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33666943
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. f Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24457
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. g Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185369210
Epipterygium tozeri, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. h Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2687896

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 2.0 °C 5.3 °C 13.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.8 °C 22.3 °C 28.1 °C
Annual rainfall 483 mm 795 mm 1,912 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 6 mm 20 mm 208 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 31 research-grade observations of Epipterygium tozeri 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.

  • Anisostichium tozeri (Grev.) Mitt.
  • Bryum tozeri Grev.
  • Epipterygium falconeri Müll.Hal.
  • Epipterygium nagasakense var. pallidum Horik. & Ochi
  • Epipterygium tozeri var. cenomanense (Thér. & Mong.) Podp.
  • Epipterygium tozeri var. rotundifolium Ochi
  • Pohlia tozeri (Grev.) Delogne
  • Webera tozeri (Grev.) Schimp.
  • Webera tozeri var. cenomanensis Thér. & Mong.

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.