Lophozia ventricosa(Dicks.) Dumort.

WFO wfo-0001196517 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lophozia ventricosa, photographed by George Greiff
fig. a George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-13 / obs. 158594054

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04277385
Filed as
Lophozia ventricosa (Dicks.) Dumort.
Det. by
D. H. Wagner 2020-12-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 152 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -11.4 °C -0.3 °C 3.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.4 °C 18.4 °C 23.5 °C
Annual rainfall 723 mm 1,174 mm 2,398 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 77 mm 237 mm 384 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 152 research-grade observations of Lophozia ventricosa 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 62 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.

  • Jungermannia bicuspidata var. concinna Mart.
  • Jungermannia bicuspidata var. graveolens Mart.
  • Jungermannia bicuspidata var. minor Mart.
  • Jungermannia brevicaulis Raddi
  • Jungermannia ehrhartiana F.Weber
  • Jungermannia inflata var. major Mart.
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. complanata Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. contexta Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. fertilis Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. gemmipara Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. laxa Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. pulchella Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. rubriflora Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. sterilis Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. stipularis Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. subcomplicata Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. suberecta Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. tenuior Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. triphylla Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca f. vaginata Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca var. complanata (Nees) Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca var. pulchella (Nees) Nees
  • Jungermannia porphyroleuca var. stipularis (Nees) Gottsche, Lindenb. & Nees

and 38 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.

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.