Fontinalis dalecarlicaBruch & Schimp.

fontinalis moss

WFO wfo-0001182075 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-05-21 / obs. 3760729
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Chris Hoess
fig. b Chris Hoess, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1159466
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Court Harding
fig. c Court Harding, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111988725
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. d Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120806554
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. e Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110044840
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. f Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110044511
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. g Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110044799
Fontinalis dalecarlica, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. h Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110044817

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 18 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.

  • Fontinalis baltica (Limpr.) H.Klinggr.
  • Fontinalis berneti Cardot & G.Roth
  • Fontinalis caravaeana Farneti ex Paris
  • Fontinalis cavarana Farneti
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica f. atra (Limpr.) Podp.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica subsp. baltica (Limpr.) Podp.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica var. atra Limpr.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica var. baltica Limpr.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica var. curvata Lindb.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica var. gracilescens Warnst.
  • Fontinalis dalecarlica var. microphylla (Schimp. ex Limpr.) H.A.Möller
  • Fontinalis dichelymoides subsp. microphylla (Schimp. ex Limpr.) Kindb.
  • Fontinalis microphylla Schimp. ex Limpr.
  • Fontinalis microphylla f. subfalcata Dietzow & Freiberg
  • Fontinalis squamosa subsp. dalecarlica (Bruch & Schimp.) Cardot
  • Fontinalis squamosa var. dalecarlica (Bruch & Schimp.) Hartm.
  • Fontinalis squamosa var. elongata C.E.O.Jensen
  • Pilotrichum dalecarlicum (Bruch & Schimp.) Müll.Hal.

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.