Geheebia ferruginea(Schimp. ex Besch.) R.H.Zander

WFO wfo-1000018264 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205154475
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205154726
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. c Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190719065
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158044149
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Randal
fig. e Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143140843
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Randal
fig. f Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 123729772
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. g Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119330674
Geheebia ferruginea, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115938006

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Where it actually grows measured, from 137 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.8 °C -3.9 °C 2.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.2 °C 22.1 °C 24.8 °C
Annual rainfall 729 mm 1,186 mm 3,426 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 120 mm 213 mm 415 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 137 research-grade observations of Geheebia ferruginea that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 24 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.

  • Barbula falcifolia Müll.Hal.
  • Barbula fallax subsp. recurvifolia (Wilson) Boulay
  • Barbula fallax subsp. reflexa (Brid.) Meyl.
  • Barbula fallax var. recurvifolia (Wilson) Husn.
  • Barbula fallax var. reflexa (Brid.) Brid.
  • Barbula ferruginea Schimp. ex Besch.
  • Barbula recurvifolia Schimp.
  • Barbula reflexa (Brid.) Brid.
  • Barbula reflexa f. robusta Röll
  • Barbula reflexa var. obtusata Mönk.
  • Barbula rigidicaulis Müll.Hal.
  • Barbula serpenticaulis Müll.Hal.
  • Didymodon fallax var. reflexus (Brid.) R.H.Zander
  • Didymodon ferrugineus (Schimp. ex Besch.) M.O.Hill
  • Didymodon ferrugineus var. ferrugineus
  • Didymodon rigidicaulis (Müll.Hal.) K.Saito
  • Leptodontium japonicum Sakurai
  • Tortula fallax var. recurvifolia Wilson
  • Tortula recurvifolia (Schimp.) Austin
  • Tortula recurvifolia (Wilson) Berk.
  • Tortula reflexa Brid.
  • Triquetrella ferruginea (Schimp. ex Besch.) Thér.
  • Triquetrella recurvifolia Dixon & Sakurai
  • Triquetrella tenuicaulis Sakurai

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.