Fissidens exilisHedw.

fissidens moss

WFO wfo-0001193390 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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 exilis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. a George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-05 / obs. 109373602
Fissidens exilis, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. b Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 63595940
Fissidens exilis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29003648
Fissidens exilis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67581586
Fissidens exilis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. e Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177841701
Fissidens exilis, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. f Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 109907423
Fissidens exilis, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. g Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 63595947
Fissidens exilis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. h Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174017780

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.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Bryum viridulum Dicks.
  • Dicranum bryoides var. minus Turner
  • Dicranum exile (Hedw.) Muhl.
  • Dicranum palmatum var. exile (Hedw.) Arn.
  • Dicranum viridulum var. exile (Hedw.) Duby
  • Fissidens bloxamii Wilson
  • Fissidens bryoides var. exilis (Hedw.) Röhl.
  • Fissidens viridulus var. exilis (Hedw.) Röhl.
  • Hypnum minutum Wilson
  • Schistophyllum bloxamii (Wilson) Lindb.
  • Schistophyllum exile (Hedw.) Lindb.
  • Skitophyllum exile (Hedw.) Bach.Pyl.

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.