Fissidens subbasilarisHedw.

fissidens moss

WFO wfo-0001181816 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. a John Kees, CC0 1.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 174986803
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174987166
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174659530
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. d John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174986780
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. e John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174659539
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. f John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175117835
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. g John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174659517
Fissidens subbasilaris, photographed by John Kees
fig. h John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 175117845

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 2 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.

  • Dicranum subbasilare (Hedw.) D.Mohr
  • Skitophyllum subbasilare (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.