Lescuraea radicosa(Mitt.) Mönk.

pseudoleskea moss

WFO wfo-0001169038 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Lescuraea radicosa, photographed by Randal
fig. a Randal, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-26 / obs. 153693106
Lescuraea radicosa, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153693137
Lescuraea radicosa, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153693162
Lescuraea radicosa, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153693189

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04469097
Filed as
Pseudoleskea radicosa (Mitt.) Macoun & Kindb.
Det. by
D. R. Toren 2019-11-01
Collected
J. R. Shevock 2019-10-25
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Also published as 59 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 radicosum Mitt.
  • Lescuraea breidleri (Kindb.) Arnell & C.E.O.Jensen
  • Lescuraea denudata (Kindb.) Mönk.
  • Lescuraea denudata var. hyperborea (Kindb.) Mönk.
  • Lescuraea pallida (Best) D.H.Norris & Shevock
  • Lescuraea radicosa f. holzingeri (Best) E.Lawton
  • Lescuraea radicosa var. pfundtneri (Limpr.) Mönk.
  • Lescuraea rigescens Arnell & C.E.O.Jensen
  • Pseudoleskea atrovirens subsp. rigescens Renauld & Cardot
  • Pseudoleskea atrovirens var. pfundtneri (Limpr.) Bott.
  • Pseudoleskea bicolor Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskea breidleri Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskea breidleri var. hyperborea (Kindb.) Weim.
  • Pseudoleskea congesta Schimp. ex Paris
  • Pseudoleskea congesta var. compacta (Best) Paris
  • Pseudoleskea congesta var. howei (Best) Paris
  • Pseudoleskea denudata (Kindb.) Best
  • Pseudoleskea denudata f. latifolia Herzog
  • Pseudoleskea denudata var. holzingeri Best
  • Pseudoleskea denudata var. hyperborea (Kindb.) Meyl.
  • Pseudoleskea denudata var. hystrix Podp.
  • Pseudoleskea howei (Best) L.F.Koch
  • Pseudoleskea hyperborea Kindb.
  • Pseudoleskea jemtlandica Kindb.

and 35 more.

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 PSRA4. 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.