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.
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 31 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -14.9 °C | -9.5 °C | -5.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 12.7 °C | 17.5 °C | 21.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,060 mm | 1,693 mm | 2,380 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 158 mm | 254 mm | 461 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 31 research-grade observations of Lescuraea incurvata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 61 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.
- Hypnum attenuatum Dicks.
- Hypnum filamentosum Dicks.
- Hypnum filamentosum var. tenue Müll.Hal.
- Hypnum filiforme Vill. ex Brid.
- Hypnum implexum Brid.
- Hypnum incurvatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.
- Lescuraea atrovirens var. tenella (Limpr.) Mönk.
- Lescuraea filamentosa (Dicks.) Lindb.
- Lescuraea filamentosa var. subcatenulata Saelan
- Lescuraea filamentosa var. subnitidula Lindb. ex Paris
- Lescuraea incurvata var. subnitidula (Lindb. ex Broth. & Saelan) Wijk & Margad.
- Leskea filamentosa (Dicks.) Kindb.
- Leskea incurvata Hedw.
- Leskea incurvata var. implexa (Brid.) Brid.
- Leskea incurvata var. stricta Schultz
- Leskea incurvata var. subserrulata Brid.
- Leskea incurvata var. tenuior Schwägr.
- Leskea incurvata var. thomasii Brid.
- Lesquereuxia filamentosa (Dicks.) Lindb.
- Pseudoleskea atrovirens f. montana (Molendo ex Lorentz) Molendo
- Pseudoleskea atrovirens subsp. filamentosa (Dicks.) Kindb.
- Pseudoleskea atrovirens var. borealis (Kindb.) Paris
- Pseudoleskea atrovirens var. compacta Matousch.
- Pseudoleskea atrovirens var. filamentosa (Dicks.) Boulay
and 37 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.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PSIN6. 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.