Frullania apiculata

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Frullania apiculata, photographed by Kevin Faccenda — fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-11 / obs. 148002074

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 31 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.

Frullania acutistipula Steph.
Frullania anamensis Steph.
Frullania apiculata f. aculeata Verd.
Frullania apiculata f. apiculata
Frullania apiculata f. warburgii Verd.
Frullania apiculata subsp. apiculata
Frullania apiculata subsp. kaindimontana S.Hatt.
Frullania apiculata var. explicata (Mont.) Schiffn.
Frullania apiculata var. guianensis Lindenb. & Gottsche
Frullania apiculata var. nodulosa (Nees) Schiffn.
Frullania apiculata var. obscura Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees
Frullania apiculata var. obtusata S.Hatt.
Frullania apiculata var. parva S.Hatt.
Frullania camerunensis Steph.
Frullania capilliformis Steph.
Frullania densifolia Steph.
Frullania explicata Mont.
Frullania karstenii Schiffn.
Frullania mertensiana Lindenb.
Frullania nigricans Steph.
Frullania oceanica Mitt.
Frullania pacificae Taylor
Frullania pallida Steph.
Frullania pandanicola Steph.

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.