Fissidens fontanus(Bach.Pyl.) Steud.

fissidens moss

WFO wfo-0001193424 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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 fontanus, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. a Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199848019
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103677733
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58604877
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. d Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30309483
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58605024
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Christen Warkoczewski
fig. f Christen Warkoczewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107360186
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. g Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25995450
Fissidens fontanus, photographed by Alie / C.A. Kratzer
fig. h Alie / C.A. Kratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14229490

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 17 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 julianum (Savi ex DC.) Mont.
  • Conomitrium julianum var. mexicanum (Müll.Hal.) Schimp.
  • Conomitrium mexicanum Müll.Hal.
  • Conomitrium tuerckheimii Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens julianus (Savi ex DC.) Schimp.
  • Fissidens julianus var. americanus Kindb.
  • Fissidens julianus var. mexicanus (Müll.Hal.) Thér.
  • Fissidens mexicanus (Müll.Hal.) Mitt.
  • Fissidens tuerckheimii (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
  • Fontinalis juliana Savi ex DC.
  • Octodiceras fontanum (Bach.Pyl.) Lindb.
  • Octodiceras julianum (Savi ex DC.) Brid.
  • Octodiceras julianum var. ohioense Emig
  • Octodiceras mexicanum (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger
  • Octodiceras tuerckheimii (Müll.Hal.) Cardot
  • Schistophyllum julianum (Savi ex DC.) Lindb.
  • Skitophyllum fontanum 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.