Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 41 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -1.3 °C | 1.3 °C | 7.6 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.2 °C | 19.8 °C | 23.8 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 854 mm | 1,475 mm | 3,540 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 146 mm | 292 mm | 770 mm |
It is found where winters bring light 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 41 research-grade observations of Glyphothecium sciuroides 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 20 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.
- Cladomnion muellerianum A.Jaeger
- Cladomnion octangulum (Müll.Hal.) Bosch & Sande Lac.
- Cladomnion sciuroides (Hook.) Wilson
- Cladomnion tasmanicum Müll.Hal.
- Cladomnion valdiviae Müll.Hal.
- Garovaglia sciuroides (Hook.) Mitt.
- Glyphothecium muellerianum Hampe
- Glyphothecium pangerangense M.Fleisch.
- Glyphothecium pendulum Zanten
- Glyphothecium sciuroides f. ceylanicum M.Fleisch.
- Glyphothecium sciuroides f. sciuroides
- Glyptothecium octangulum (Müll.Hal.) Broth.
- Glyptothecium pangerangense (M.Fleisch.) Broth.
- Glyptothecium sciuroides (Hook.) Broth.
- Hypnum sciuroides (Hook.) Arn.
- Leskea sciuroides Dozy & Molk.
- Leskea sciuroides Hook.
- Neckera glyphotheca Müll.Hal.
- Neckera octangula Müll.Hal.
- Stereodon sciuroides (Hook.) Mitt.
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.