Fissidens bryoides (bryoid fissidens moss)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Michael J. Papay — fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-10 / obs. 178934954

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Randal — fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175855151

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Braden J. Judson — fig. c Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170047869

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Helen Waterman — fig. d Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162083348

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan — fig. e Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 118852234

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Zihao Wang — fig. f Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107399915

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Brandon Corder — fig. g Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98191735

Fissidens bryoides, photographed by Susan Marley — fig. h Susan Marley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92847498

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Where it actually grows measured, from 367 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-10.8 °C	0.2 °C	4.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	17.7 °C	22.2 °C	31.3 °C
Annual rainfall	635 mm	996 mm	1,798 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	86 mm	165 mm	301 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 367 research-grade observations of Fissidens bryoides 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 84 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.

Dicranodon bryoides (Hedw.) Béhéré
Dicranum bryoides (Hedw.) Sw.
Fissidens alpestris (Lindb.) J.J.Amann
Fissidens andersonii Grout
Fissidens angustilimbatus Broth.
Fissidens borealis C.Gao
Fissidens bryoides f. acutifolius (Velen.) Podp.
Fissidens bryoides f. brevisetus Meln.
Fissidens bryoides f. subimpar (Lindb.) Smirnova
Fissidens bryoides f. varius (Lindb.) Smirnova
Fissidens bryoides subsp. alpestris (Lindb.) Limpr.
Fissidens bryoides subsp. curnovii (Mitt.) Dixon
Fissidens bryoides subsp. inconstans (Schimp.) P.de la Varde
Fissidens bryoides var. acutifolius Velen.
Fissidens bryoides var. alpestris (Lindb.) Waldh.
Fissidens bryoides var. arboreus Griff.
Fissidens bryoides var. asplenioides Huebener
Fissidens bryoides var. bottinii (Zodda) Podp.
Fissidens bryoides var. brevifolius (Renauld & Cardot) Wijk & Margad.
Fissidens bryoides var. curnovii (Mitt.) J.J.Amann
Fissidens bryoides var. decumbens (R.Ruthe ex Warnst.) Podp.
Fissidens bryoides var. elongatus Delogne
Fissidens bryoides var. elongatus Schultz
Fissidens bryoides var. inconstans (Schimp.) R.Ruthe

and 60 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.