Fissidens crispusMont.

fissidens moss

WFO wfo-0001193302 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Fissidens crispus, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2019-09-05 / obs. 50448855
Fissidens crispus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24296
Fissidens crispus, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50448869
Fissidens crispus, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. d Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24476
Fissidens crispus, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 50470159

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
1837265
Filed as
Fissidens crispus Mont.
Det. by
R. A. Pursell 1992-09-01
Collected
W. C. Steere 1943-11-24
Origin
EC
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.

Also published as 52 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.

  • Conomitrium biareolatum Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens aequalis E.S.Salmon
  • Fissidens alticaulis Broth.
  • Fissidens arsenei Broth. & Paris ex Thér.
  • Fissidens bambergeri var. cyprius (Jur.) G.Roth
  • Fissidens biareolatus (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Fissidens bryoides subsp. cyprius (Jur.) Kindb.
  • Fissidens bryoides subsp. herzogii (R.Ruthe) Podp.
  • Fissidens bryoides subsp. schmidii (Müll.Hal.) Nork.
  • Fissidens bryoides var. schmidii (Müll.Hal.) R.S.Chopra & S.S.Kumar
  • Fissidens carionis Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens cataractarum Demaret & P.de la Varde
  • Fissidens chilensis Dusén
  • Fissidens circinatulus Besch.
  • Fissidens costesii Thér.
  • Fissidens cyprius Jur.
  • Fissidens cyprius f. subdioicus Latzel
  • Fissidens fasciculatobryoides Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens fendleri Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens fernandezianus Broth.
  • Fissidens flexuosus Thér.
  • Fissidens glossobryoides Dixon
  • Fissidens hasskarlii A.Jaeger
  • Fissidens heribaudii Broth. & Paris

and 28 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol FILI. public domain. 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.