Gyroweisia tenuis(Hedw.) Schimp.

gyroweisia moss

WFO wfo-0001174275 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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.

Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. a George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-06-02 / obs. 18993890
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. b George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33437393
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18993902
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18993911
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. e Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159382046
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. f Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159387977
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. g Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159378577
Gyroweisia tenuis, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. h Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159378605

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 19 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.

  • Bryum paucifolium Dicks.
  • Dicranum paucifolium (Dicks.) Turton
  • Eucladium tenue (Hedw.) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Eucladium tenue var. compactum (I.Hagen) C.E.O.Jensen
  • Gymnostomum paucifolium (Dicks.) Sm.
  • Gymnostomum tenue Hedw.
  • Gyroweisia acutifolia H.Philib.
  • Gyroweisia tenuis f. compacta (I.Hagen) Podp.
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. acutifolia (H.Philib.) Jelenc
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. badia Limpr.
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. compacta I.Hagen
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. cuspidata Röll
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. lacustris J.J.Amann
  • Gyroweisia tenuis var. schisticola G.Roth
  • Mollia tenuis (Hedw.) Lindb.
  • Seligeria paucifolia (Dicks.) Carruth.
  • Trichostomum reflexum var. gymnostomum Lindb.
  • Weissia acutifolia (H.Philib.) Kindb.
  • Weissia tenuis (Hedw.) 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.