Hypnum andoiA.J.E.Sm.

hypnum moss

WFO wfo-0001146626 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypnum andoi, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193847635
Hypnum andoi, photographed by George Greiff
fig. b George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176274696
Hypnum andoi, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109373612
Hypnum andoi, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109126564
Hypnum andoi, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. e Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107853503
Hypnum andoi, photographed by Paco Bergson
fig. f Paco Bergson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105266260
Hypnum andoi, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104728809
Hypnum andoi, photographed by George Greiff
fig. h George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91147739

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Where it actually grows measured, from 153 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.9 °C 1.0 °C 4.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.6 °C 18.7 °C 23.9 °C
Annual rainfall 631 mm 1,040 mm 1,888 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 118 mm 192 mm 329 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 153 research-grade observations of Hypnum andoi 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 10 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.

  • Drepanium cupressiforme var. mammillatum (Brid.) G.Roth
  • Hypnum cupressiforme subsp. mammillatum (Brid.) Nyl. & Saelan
  • Hypnum cupressiforme var. complanatum Brid.
  • Hypnum cupressiforme var. mammillatum Brid.
  • Hypnum cupressiforme var. pyrenaicum Renauld
  • Hypnum mammillatum (Brid.) Lindb.
  • Stereodon cupressiformis subsp. mammillatus (Brid.) Brid.
  • Stereodon cupressiformis subsp. mammillatus (Brid.) Lindb.
  • Stereodon cupressiformis var. complanatus (Brid.) Brid.
  • Stereodon mammillatus (Brid.) Warnst.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol HYMA5. public domain. 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.