Longiella distichacea(Mitt.) J.T.Wynns

pseudotaxiphyllum moss

WFO wfo-1000020143 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs 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.

Longiella distichacea, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-03 / obs. 172835710
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. b Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107221309
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172836002
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. d Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107221270
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172835997
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. f Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107221286
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. g Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106048923
Longiella distichacea, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. h Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106048970

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 3 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.

  • Isopterygium distichaceum (Mitt.) A.Jaeger
  • Pseudotaxiphyllum distichaceum (Mitt.) Z.Iwats.
  • Stereodon distichaceus Mitt.

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 PSDI2. 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.