Fissidens ovatusBrid.

WFO wfo-0001178929 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 171578370
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165780540
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 112345509
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166253683
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111740294
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. f Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180796397
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111740418
Fissidens ovatus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204164476

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Also published as 14 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.

  • Fissidens cymatophyllus Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens fluminalis Dusén
  • Fissidens glaucescens Hornsch.
  • Fissidens lanceolatus Hampe
  • Fissidens mucronatus Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens ovatus f. cymatophyllus (Müll.Hal.) Bizot ex G.Kis
  • Fissidens ovatus var. elatior Renauld & Cardot
  • Fissidens ovatus var. ochroloma Renauld & Cardot
  • Fissidens procerior Broth. & Bryhn
  • Fissidens rehmannii Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens thunbergii Brid.
  • Fissidens undifolius Müll.Hal.
  • Fissidens zuluensis Broth. & Bryhn
  • Hypnum asplenioides Thunb.

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.

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.